Demosthenes, Against Pantaenetus, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 43

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[43] On my part, men of the jury, I was led to reflect what gain there is in a life molded to serve one’s ends.¹ For it seemed to me that I was suffering this treatment because I was despised as one who lived a simple and natural life, and that I was paying a heavy penalty in having to submit to this.

However, to prove that I was compelled to give a counter-challenge contrary to what I thought was right, that I offered to give up the slave, and that I am speaking the truth in this, read the challenge.

The Challenge

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

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

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παραγραφὴ πρὸς Πανταίνετον Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. II, Part 2. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921.) — 43 focus

[43] καὶ ἔγωγʼ ἐνεθυμήθην, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, ἡλίκον ἐστὶ πλεονέκτημα τὸ καταπεπλάσθαι τὸν βίον. ἐγὼ γὰρ ἐμαυτῷ ταῦτα πάσχειν ἐδόκουν καταφρονούμενος τῷ ἁπλῶς καὶ ὡς πέφυκα ζῆν, καὶ δίκην διδόναι παμμεγέθη ταῦτʼ ἀνεχόμενος. ὅτι δʼ οὖν ἠναγκαζόμην, παρʼ ἃ ἡγούμην δίκαιʼ εἶναι, ἀντιπροκαλεῖσθαι, καὶ τὸν οἰκέτην παρεδίδουν, καὶ ὅτι ταῦτʼ ἀληθῆ λέγω, λέγε τὴν πρόκλησιν.

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Against Pantaenetus

1. His own desire to live simply and naturally had caused him to be imposed upon, and to be despised as one lacking in spirit. The passage is variously interpreted, and the text is uncertain. The MSS. have καταπεπλῆχθαι, which yields no satisfactory sense, unless with Wolf we insert the negative μή. The meaning in that case would be that a life of ruthless self-assertion is a great gain.

Demosthenes Against Pantaenetus 43

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

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