Demosthenes, Against Meidias, James Herbert Vince (Translator), 50

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[50] If the barbarians heard these words and understood their import, do you not think that they would unanimously appoint you their protectors?¹ As regards this law then, which is so well esteemed among the Greeks and would be well esteemed among the barbarians also, consider what penalty he who transgresses it will have to pay before he has paid his deserts.

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

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

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κατὰ Μειδίου περὶ τοῦ Κονδύλου Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. II, Part 1. Butcher, S. H., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907.) — 50 focus

[50] εἰ ταῦτʼ ἀκούσειαν καὶ συνεῖεν οἱ βάρβαροι, οὐκ ἂν οἴεσθε δημοσίᾳ πάντας ὑμᾶς προξένους αὑτῶν ποιήσασθαι; τὸν τοίνυν οὐ παρὰ τοῖς Ἕλλησιν μόνον εὐδοκιμοῦντα νόμον, ἀλλὰ καὶ παρὰ τοῖς βαρβάροις εὖ δόξαντʼ ἂν ἔχειν, σκοπεῖσθʼ ὁ παραβὰς ἥντινα δοὺς δίκην ἀξίαν ἔσται δεδωκώς.

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Against Meidias

1. πρόξενος, here loosely used, is technically a man chosen by a foreign state as its representative in his own native city (nearly a consul in the modern sense).

Demosthenes Against Meidias 50

James Herbert Vince (Translator)

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