Demosthenes, Against Lacritus, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 34

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Erasicles deposes that he sailed with Hyblesius as pilot of the ship to Pontus, and when the ship was sailing along the coast to Theodosia from Panticapaeum he knows that the ship had no cargo; and that Apollodorus, the very man who is now defendant in this suit,¹ had no wine on board the vessel, but that about eighty jars of Coan wine were being conveyed for a certain man of Theodosia.

Hippias, son of Athenippus, of Halicarnassus, deposes that he sailed with Hyblesius as supercargo of the ship, and that when the ship was sailing along the coast to Theodosia from Panticapaeum, Apollodorus put on board the ship one or two hampers of wool, eleven or twelve jars of salt fish, and goat-skins—two or three bundles—and nothing else.

In addition to these, written affidavits² were submitted by Euphiletus, son of Damotimus, of Aphidnae, Hippias, son of Timoxenus, of Thymaetadae, Sostratus, son of Philip, of Histiaea, Archenomides, son of Strato, of Thria. and Philtiades, son of Ctesicles, of Xypetê.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 συμπλεῖν Ὑβλησίῳ κυβερνῶν τὴν ναῦν εἰς τὸν Πόντον, καὶ ὅτε παρέπλει ἡ ναῦς εἰς Θευδοσίαν ἐκ Παντικαπαίου, εἰδέναι κενὴν τὴν ναῦν παραπλέουσαν, καὶ Ἀπολλοδώρου αὐτοῦ τοῦ φεύγοντος νυνὶ τὴν δίκην μὴ εἶναι οἶνον ἐν τῷ πλοίῳ, ἀλλὰ παράγεσθαι τῶν ἐκ Θευδοσίας τινὶ οἴνου Κῷα κεράμια περὶ ὀγδοήκοντα.

Ἱππίας Ἀθηνίππου Ἁλικαρνασσεὺς μαρτυρεῖ συμπλεῖν Ὑβλησίῳ διοπεύων τὴν ναῦν, καὶ ὅτε παρέπλει ἡ ναῦς εἰς Θευδοσίαν ἐκ Παντικαπαίου, ἐνθέσθαι Ἀπολλόδωρον εἰς τὴν ναῦν ἐρίων ἀγγεῖον ἓν ἢ δύο καὶ ταρίχους κεράμια ἕνδεκα ἢ δώδεκα καὶ δέρματʼ αἴγεια, δύο δέσμας ἢ τρεῖς, ἄλλο δʼ οὐδέν.

πρὸς τούσδʼ ἐξεμαρτύρησεν· Εὐφίλητος Δαμοτίμου Ἀφιδναῖος, Ἱππίας Τιμοξένου Θυμαιτάδης, Σώστρατος Φιλίππου Ἑστιαιόθεν, Ἀρχενομίδης Στράτωνος Θριάσιος, Φιλτάδης Κτησικλέους Ξυπεταιών.

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Against Lacritus

1. If this clause is not an interpolation, we must assume that Apollodorus was being sued as co-defendant with Lacritus. But this whole inserted document may well be spurious.

2. See note 17 above.

3. Aphidnae was a deme of the tribe Acantis; Thymaetadae, a deme of the tribe Hippothontis; Thria, a deme of the tribe Oeneïs; and Xypetê, a deme of the tribe Cecropis.

Demosthenes Against Lacritus 34

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