Demosthenes, For Phormio, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 14

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[14] Evidence has been submitted to you, men of Athens, that they¹ granted a lease to these men also, and gave over to them no private banking-capital; and that they gave them their freedom,² as if having received great benefits from them; and at that time they went to law neither with them nor with Phormio. Indeed, as long as his mother was living, who had an accurate knowledge of all these matters, Apollodorus never made any complaint against Phormio, the defendant; but after her death he brought a malicious and baseless suit claiming three thousand drachmae in money, in addition to two thousand drachmae which she had given to Phormio’s children,³ and a bit of underwear and a serving-girl.

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.) — 14 focus

[14] μεμαρτύρηται μὲν τοίνυν ὑμῖν, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, ὅτι καὶ τούτοις ἐμίσθωσαν καὶ οὐ παρέδωκαν ἰδίαν ἀφορμὴν οὐδεμίαν, καὶ ἐλευθέρους ἀφεῖσαν ὡς μεγάλʼ εὖ πεπονθότες, καὶ οὐκ ἐδικάζοντʼ οὔτʼ ἐκείνοις τότʼ οὔτε τούτῳ. ὃν μὲν τοίνυν χρόνον ἡ μήτηρ ἔζη, ἡ πάντʼ ἀκριβῶς ταῦτʼ εἰδυῖα, οὐδὲν ἔγκλημα πώποτʼ ἐποιήσατο πρὸς τουτονὶ Φορμίωνʼ Ἀπολλόδωρος· ὡς δʼ ἐτελεύτησεν ἐκείνη, τρισχιλίας ἐγκαλέσας ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς πρὸς αἷς ἔδωκεν ἐκείνη δισχιλίαις τοῖς τούτου παιδίοις, καὶ χιτωνίσκον τινὰ καὶ θεράπαιναν, ἐσυκοφάντει.

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For Phormio

1. The plural denotes the two brothers, Apollodorus and Pasicles.

2. These men would appear to have been slaves originally, and, like Phormio himself, were rewarded with emancipation. The alternative rendering, freed them from all claims, seems less probable.

3. Children, that is, whom she had borne to Phormio.

Demosthenes For Phormio 14

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

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