Demosthenes, For Phormio, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 1

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[1] Phormio’s inexperience in speaking,¹ and his utter helplessness, you all see for yourselves, men of Athens. It is necessary for us, his friends, to state and set forth for you the facts, which we know full well from having heard him often relate them; in order that, when you have duly learned from us and have come to know the rights of the case, you may give a verdict that is both just and in harmony with your oaths.

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

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A Friend Pleading for Phormio (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 1. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).)

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παραγραφὴ ὑπὲρ Φορμίωνος Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. II, Part 2. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921.) — 1 focus

[1] τὴν μὲν ἀπειρίαν τοῦ λέγειν, καὶ ὡς ἀδυνάτως ἔχει Φορμίων, αὐτοὶ πάντες ὁρᾶτʼ, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι· ἀνάγκη δʼ ἐστὶν τοῖς ἐπιτηδείοις ἡμῖν, ἃ σύνισμεν πολλάκις τούτου διεξιόντος ἀκηκοότες, λέγειν καὶ διδάσκειν ὑμᾶς, ἵνʼ εἰδότες καὶ μεμαθηκότες ὀρθῶς τὰ δίκαια παρʼ ἡμῶν, ἃν ᾖ δίκαια καὶ εὔορκα, ταῦτα ψηφίσησθε.

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For Phormio

1. This is not merely the conventional plea of inexperience (compare Dem. 34.1 ); Phormio was by now an old man, and further, since he was a manumitted slave, he can have had no training which would equip him for the task, and furthermore, he was, of course, of barbarian birth. His friends, therefore, came to his aid, and one of them speaks in his behalf.

Demosthenes For Phormio 1

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

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