Demosthenes, Against Meidias, James Herbert Vince (Translator), 56

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[56] Moreover, you are aware that, although anxious to exclude aliens from the contest, you do not grant unlimited right to any chorus-master to summon for scrutiny any member of a chorus¹; if he summons him, he is fined fifty drachmas, and a thousand drachmas if he orders him to sit among the spectators. What is the object? To protect the crowned official, who is doing public service to the god, from being maliciously summoned or annoyed or insulted on that day.

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.) — 56 focus

[56] καὶ μὴν ἴστε γε τοῦθʼ ὅτι βουλόμενοι μηδένʼ ἀγωνίζεσθαι ξένον οὐκ ἐδώκαθʼ ἁπλῶς τῶν χορηγῶν οὐδενὶ προσκαλέσαντι τοὺς χορευτὰς σκοπεῖν, ἀλλʼ ἐὰν μὲν καλέσῃ, πεντήκοντα δραχμάς, ἐὰν δὲ καθέζεσθαι καθέζεσθαι κελεύσῃ, χιλίας ἀποτίνειν ἐτάξατε. τίνος εἵνεκα; ὅπως μὴ τὸν ἐστεφανωμένον καὶ λῃτουργοῦντα τῷ θεῷ ταύτην τὴν ἡμέραν καλῇ μηδʼ ἐπηρεάζῃ μηδʼ ὑβρίζῃ μηδεὶς ἐξεπίτηδες.

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Against Meidias

1. If a chorus-master suspected that a member of a rival chorus was an alien, he must not forcibly eject him nor summon him before the Archon to prove his nationality.

Demosthenes Against Meidias 56

James Herbert Vince (Translator)

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