Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, ed. Samuel Henry Butcher, 1

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[1] τοῦ μὲν ἀγῶνος, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, τοῦ παρόντος οὐδʼ ἂν αὐτὸν οἶμαι Τιμοκράτην εἰπεῖν ὡς αἴτιός ἐστιν ἄλλος τις αὐτῷ πλὴν αὐτὸς αὑτῷ. χρημάτων γὰρ οὐκ ὀλίγων ἀποστερῆσαι βουλόμενος τὴν πόλιν, παρὰ πάντας τοὺς νόμους νόμον εἰσήνεγκεν οὔτʼ ἐπιτήδειον οὔτε δίκαιον, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί· ὃς τὰ μὲν ἄλλʼ ὅσα λυμανεῖται καὶ χεῖρον ἔχειν τὰ κοινὰ ποιήσει, κύριος εἰ γενήσεται, τάχα δὴ καθʼ ἕκαστον ἀκούοντες ἐμοῦ μαθήσεσθε, ἓν δʼ, ὃ μέγιστον ἔχω καὶ προχειρότατον πρὸς ὑμᾶς εἰπεῖν, οὐκ ἀποτρέψομαι.

Against Timocrates. Demosthenes. ed. Samuel Henry Butcher. Oxford. 1907.

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κατὰ Τιμοκράτους (Greek) (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. II, Part 1. Butcher, S. H., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907.)

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Against Timocrates Perseus (Demosthenes, Vol. III: Orations, XXI-XXVI. Vince, J. H., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1935 (printing).) — 1 focus

[1] I do not think, gentlemen of the jury, that even Timocrates can lay the blame of the present prosecution upon anyone else: he has brought it on himself. Moved by desire to deprive the State of a large sum of money, he has most illegally introduced a law which is both inexpedient and iniquitous. You shall presently learn in detail, if you will listen to me, in how many respects this law, if ratified, will be injurious and detrimental to the common weal; but there is one result, the most important and the most obvious that I can name, which I shall not hesitate to put before you.

Demosthenes Against Timocrates 1

ed. Samuel Henry Butcher

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