Demosthenes, Against Apaturius, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 18

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

← Previous Next →

[18] Aristocles promised that he would produce the articles, but up to this day has not brought them to light. He did meet us on the appointed day at the Hephaesteum,¹ but made the excuse that his slave while waiting for him had fallen asleep and lost the document. The man who concocted this plot was Eryxias, the physician from Peiraeus, an intimate friend of Aristocles, the same man who out of enmity toward me has also got up this action against me.

Now in proof that Aristocles pretended that he had lost the document, hear the depositions.

The Depositions

Against Apaturius. Demosthenes. Augustus Taber Murray (Translator). London. 1936.

Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.

Funding provided by The Annenberg CPB/Project.

Current edition Perseus

Unknown Pleader Against Apaturius (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 1. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).)

Editions (1)

πρὸς Ἀπατούριον παραγραφή Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. II, Part 2. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921.) — 18 focus

[18] ὁμολογήσας δὲ ἐξοίσειν τὰς συνθήκας ὁ Ἀριστοκλῆς ἐμφανεῖς μὲν οὔπω καὶ τήμερον ἐνήνοχεν, εἰς δὲ τὴν ἡμέραν τὴν συγκειμένην ἀπαντήσας εἰς τὸ Ἡφαιστεῖον, προὐφασίζετο ὡς ὁ παῖς περιμένων αὑτὸν ἀπολωλεκὼς εἴη τὸ γραμματεῖον καθεύδων. ὁ δὲ ταῦτα κατασκευάζων ἦν Ἐρυξίας ὁ ἰατρὸς ὁ ἐκ Πειραιῶς, οἰκείως ἔχων τῷ Ἀριστοκλεῖ· ὅσπερ καὶ ἐμοὶ τοῦ ἀγῶνος αἴτιός ἐστιν, διαφόρως ἔχων. καὶ ὡς ἐσκήψατο ἀπολωλέναι ὁ Ἀριστοκλῆς, ἀκούσατε τῶν μαρτυριῶν.

ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΑΙ.

Notes on the current edition

Against Apaturius

1. The temple of Hephaestus; perhaps the well-preserved Doric structure commonly called the Theseum.

Demosthenes Against Apaturius 18

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

The Depositions

Current edition Perseus

ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΑΙ.

Notes on the current edition

Stable identifiers