Demosthenes, For Phormio, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 41

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[41] All these monies he has received; he has debts due him to the value of many talents, which he is collecting, some by voluntary payments, some by bringing action. These debts were owing to Pasio—quite apart from the rent of the bank and the other property which he left;—and these the two brothers have recovered. He has expended upon public services merely what you have heard, the smallest fraction of his income, not to say of his capital; and yet he will assume a bragging air, and will talk about his expenditures for trierarchal and choregic services.¹

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.) — 41 focus

[41] τοσαῦτα μὲν τοίνυν χρήματʼ εἰληφὼς καὶ χρέα πολλῶν ταλάντων ἔχων, ὧν τὰ μὲν παρʼ ἑκόντων, τὰ δʼ ἐκ τῶν δικῶν εἰσπράττει, ἃ τῆς μισθώσεως ἔξω τῆς τραπέζης καὶ τῆς ἄλλης οὐσίας, ἣν κατέλιπεν Πασίων, ὠφείλετʼ ἐκείνῳ καὶ νῦν παρειλήφασιν οὗτοι, καὶ τοσαῦτʼ ἀνηλωκὼς ὅσʼ ὑμεῖς ἠκούσατε, οὐδὲ πολλοστὸν μέρος τῶν προσόδων, μὴ ὅτι τῶν ἀρχαίων, εἰς τὰς λῃτουργίας, ὅμως ἀλαζονεύσεται καὶ τριηραρχίας ἐρεῖ καὶ χορηγίας.

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For Phormio

1. As a matter of fact Apollodorus had served as trierarch with distinction, and had been most liberal in his expenditures. See Dem. 50.11 ff. , and Oration Dem. 45.78 .

Demosthenes For Phormio 41

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

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