Demosthenes, Against Phormio, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 39

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

← Previous Next →

[39] and when grain earlier advanced in price and reached sixteen drachmae, we imported more than ten thousand medimni of wheat, and measured it out to you at the normal price of five drachmae a medimnus, and you all know that you had this measured out to you in the Pompeium.¹ And last year my brother and I made a free gift of a talent to buy grain for the people.

Read, please, the depositions which establish these facts.

The Depositions

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

Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.

Funding provided by The Annenberg CPB/Project.

Current edition Perseus

Plea of Chrysipus and Partner Against Phormio (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 1. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).)

Editions (1)

πρὸς Φορμίωνα ὑπὲρ δανείου Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. II, Part 2. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921.) — 39 focus

[39] ὅτε δʼ ὁ σῖτος ἐπετιμήθη τὸ πρότερον καὶ ἐγένετο ἑκκαίδεκα δραχμῶν, εἰσαγαγόντες πλείους ἢ μυρίους μεδίμνους πυρῶν διεμετρήσαμεν ὑμῖν τῆς καθεστηκυίας τιμῆς, πέντε δραχμῶν τὸν μέδιμνον, καὶ ταῦτα πάντες ἴστε ἐν τῷ πομπείῳ διαμετρούμενοι· πέρυσι δὲ εἰς τὴν σιτωνίαν τὴν ὑπὲρ τοῦ δήμου τάλαντον ὑμῖν ἐπεδώκαμεν ἐγώ τε καὶ ὁ ἀδελφός. καί μοι ἀνάγνωθι τούτων τὰς μαρτυρίας.

ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΑΙ.

Notes on the current edition

Against Phormio

1. This was a hall near the Dipylon, in which the dresses and other properties used in the Panathenaic procession ( πομπή) were kept.

Demosthenes Against Phormio 39

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

The Depositions

Current edition Perseus

ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΑΙ.

Notes on the current edition

Stable identifiers