Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, Charles Anthony Vince (Translator), James Herbert Vince (Translator), 290

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[290] What does this mean, Eubulus? At the trial of your cousin Hegesilaus, and recently at that of Thrasybulus, an uncle of Niceratus, before the first vote of the jury¹ you would not even answer when you were called; on the question of damages you did get up to speak, but you had not a word to say in their favor, and merely asked the jury to excuse you. So you do not mount the tribune for your own kinsmen and for men who have a claim on your services, and will you mount it for Aeschines,

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

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On the Embassy (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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περὶ τῆς παραπρεσβείας Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. I. Butcher, S. H., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903.) — 290 focus

[290] τί γὰρ δή ποτʼ, Εὔβουλε, Ἡγησίλεῳ μὲν κρινομένῳ, ὃς ἀνεψιός ἐστί σοι, καὶ Θρασυβούλῳ πρώην, τῷ Νικηράτου θείῳ, ἐπὶ μὲν τῆς πρώτης ψήφου οὐδʼ ὑπακοῦσαι καλούμενος ἤθελες, εἰς δὲ τὸ τίμημʼ ἀναβὰς ὑπὲρ μὲν ἐκείνων οὐδʼ ὁτιοῦν ἔλεγες, ἐδέου δὲ τῶν δικαστῶν συγγνώμην ἔχειν σοί; εἶθʼ ὑπὲρ μὲν συγγενῶν καὶ ἀναγκαίων ἀνθρώπων οὐκ ἀναβαίνεις, ὑπὲρ Αἰσχίνου δʼ ἀναβήσει,

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On the False Embassy

1. The verdict of guilty or not guilty. A second vote was in some cases (e.g. at the trial of Socrates) required to decide the punishment.

Demosthenes On the False Embassy 290

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

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