Demosthenes Against Meidias 23

James Herbert Vince (Translator)

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Against Meidias. Demosthenes. James Herbert Vince (Translator). London. 1935.

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Current edition Perseus

Against Meidias (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. III: Orations, XXI-XXVI. Vince, J. H., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1935 (printing).)

Editions (1)
κατὰ Μειδίου περὶ τοῦ Κονδύλου Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. II, Part 1. Butcher, S. H., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907.) — 23 focus

Notes on the current edition

Against Meidias

1. There is obviously some dislocation here. The evidence of the goldsmith, which concerns the outrages specified in the προβολή, should have come, with the other depositions, after Dem. 21.18 . Dem. 21.23 , in its present place, with its reference to the beginning of the speech, is nonsense. It is a repetition of Dem. 21.19 and Dem. 21.20 , being an introduction to a description of outrages committed against others. This part of his argument Demosthenes commences at Dem. 21.128 . Goodwin, who thinks that Demosthenes intended to revise his arrangement of topics, but did not carry it out when the case was dropped, brackets Dem. 21.23 here and inserts it before Dem. 21.128 .