Demosthenes, On the Crown, Charles Anthony Vince (Translator), James Herbert Vince (Translator), 103

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[103] Being indicted for this measure, I stood my trial before this court and was acquitted, the prosecutor not getting the fifth part of the votes. Now how much money do you think the first, second, and third classes of contributors on the Naval Boards offered me not to propose the measure, or, failing that, to put it on the list and then drop it on demurrer¹?\b It was so large a sum, men of Athens , that I hardly like to name it.

On the Crown. Demosthenes. Charles Anthony Vince (Translator), James Herbert Vince (Translator). London. 1926.

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On the Crown (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. II: De Corona, De Falsa Legatione, XVIII, XIX. Vince, C. A. and Vince, J. H., translators. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1926 (1939 reprint).)

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ὑπὲρ Κτησιφῶντος περὶ τοῦ στεφάνου Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. I. Butcher, S. H., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903.) — 103 focus

[103] καὶ γραφεὶς τὸν ἀγῶνα τοῦτον εἰς ὑμᾶς εἰσῆλθον καὶ ἀπέφυγον, καὶ τὸ μέρος τῶν ψήφων ὁ διώκων οὐκ ἔλαβεν. καίτοι πόσα χρήματα τοὺς ἡγεμόνας τῶν συμμοριῶν ἢ τοὺς δευτέρους καὶ τρίτους οἴεσθέ μοι διδόναι, ὥστε μάλιστα μὲν μὴ θεῖναι τὸν νόμον τοῦτον, εἰ δὲ μή, καταβάλλοντʼ ἐᾶν ἐν ὑπωμοσίᾳ; τοσαῦτʼ, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, ὅσʼ ὀκνήσαιμʼ ἂν πρὸς ὑμᾶς εἰπεῖν.

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On the Crown

1. ὑπωμοσία, in general an affidavit to arrest proceedings; here the oath taken in the Assembly by the party engaging to prosecute the author of a law or a decree for violation of the constitution. Its effect was to keep the law in abeyance, at whatever stage it had arrived, until the suit was decided.

Demosthenes On the Crown 103

Charles Anthony Vince (Translator), James Herbert Vince (Translator)

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