Demosthenes, Against Onetor I, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 15

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[15] There was an interval of two years between the marriage of the woman and their declaration that the divorce had taken place. She was married in the archonship of Polyzelus, in the month of Scirophorion,¹ and the divorce was registered in the month of Poseidon,² in the archonship of Timocrates. I, on my part, was admitted to citizenship³ immediately after the marriage, laid my charges, and demanded an accounting; and, finding that I was being robbed of all my property, instituted my suit under the last-mentioned archon.

Against Onetor I. Demosthenes. Augustus Taber Murray (Translator). London. 1936.

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Against Onetor, An Ejectment Suit I (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 1. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).)

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πρὸς Ὀνήτορα ἐξούλης α΄ Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. II, Part 2. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921.) — 15 focus

[15] δύο μὲν γάρ ἐστιν ἔτη τὰ μεταξὺ τοῦ συνοικῆσαί τε τὴν γυναῖκα καὶ φῆσαι τούτους πεποιῆσθαι τὴν ἀπόλειψιν· ἐγήματο μὲν γὰρ ἐπὶ Πολυζήλου ἄρχοντος σκιροφοριῶνος μηνός, ἡ δʼ ἀπόλειψις ἐγράφη ποσιδεῶνος μηνὸς ἐπὶ Τιμοκράτους· ἐγὼ δʼ εὐθέως μετὰ τοὺς γάμους δοκιμασθεὶς ἐνεκάλουν καὶ λόγον ἀπῄτουν, καὶ πάντων ἀποστερούμενος τὰς δίκας ἐλάγχανον ἐπὶ τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἄρχοντος.

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Against Onetor I

1. That is, in June 366.

2. That is, in December 364.

3. See note b, on Dem. 27.5 , and Aristot. Ath. Pol. 42.2

Demosthenes Against Onetor I 15

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

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