Demosthenes, Against Lacritus, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 20

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Erasicles deposes that he was pilot of the ship of which Hyblesius was owner, and that to his knowledge Apollodorus¹ was conveying in the ship four hundred and fifty jars of Mendaean wine, and no more; and that Apollodorus conveyed no other cargo in the ship to Pontus.

Hippias, son of Athenippus, of Halicarnassus, deposes that he too sailed in the ship of Hyblesius as supercargo of the vessel and that to his knowledge Apollodorus of Phaselis was conveying in the ship from Mendê to Pontus four hundred and fifty jars of Mendaean wine, and no other cargo.

In addition to these, written affidavits² were submitted by Archiades, son of Mnesonidas,of Acharnae, Sostratus, son of Philip, of Histiaea, Eumarichus, son of Euboeus, of Histiaea, Philtiades, son of Ctesias, of Xypetê, and Dionysius, son of Democratides, of Cholleidae.³

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

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

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Ἐρασικλῆς μαρτυρεῖ κυβερνᾶν τὴν ναῦν ἣν Ὑβλήσιος ἐναυκλήρει, καὶ εἰδέναι Ἀπολλόδωρον ἀγόμενον ἐν τῷ πλοίῳ οἴνου Μενδαίου κεράμια τετρακόσια πεντήκοντα, καὶ οὐ πλείω· ἄλλο δὲ μηδὲν ἀγώγιμον ἄγεσθαι ἐν τῷ πλοίῳ Ἀπολλόδωρον εἰς τὸν Πόντον.

Ἱππίας Ἀθηνίππου Ἁλικαρνασσεὺς μαρτυρεῖ συμπλεῖν ἐν τῇ Ὑβλησίου νηὶ διοπεύων τὴν ναῦν, καὶ εἰδέναι Ἀπολλόδωρον τὸν Φασηλίτην ἀγόμενον ἐν τῷ πλοίῳ ἐκ Μένδης εἰς τὸν Πόντον οἴνου Μενδαίου κεράμια τετρακόσια πεντήκοντα, ἄλλο δὲ μηδὲν φορτίον.

πρὸς τούσδʼ ἐξεμαρτύρησεν· Ἀρχιάδης Μνησωνίδου Ἀχαρνεύς, Σώστρατος Φιλίππου Ἑστιαιόθεν, Εὐμάριχος Εὐβοίου Ἑστιαιόθεν, Φιλτάδης Κτησίου Ξυπεταιών, Διονύσιος Δημοκρατίδου Χολλῄδης.

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Against Lacritus

1. Perhaps a bit of carelessness on the part of the writer of this spurious deposition. In Dem. 34.16 we are told that it was Artemo who was to sail with the cargo.

2. Affidavits, taken down in writing in the presence of witnesses appointed for the purpose, and verified by them under oath, were accepted as evidence when the individuals could not be present in person.

3. Acharnae was a deme of the tribe Oeneïs, Xypetê a deme of the tribe Cecropis, and Cholleidae a deme of the tribe Aegeis.

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