Demosthenes Against Nausimachus and Xenopeithes 1

ed. William Rennie

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[1] δεδωκότων, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, τῶν νόμων παραγράψασθαι περὶ ὧν ἄν τις ἀφεὶς καὶ ἀπαλλάξας πάλιν δικάζηται, γεγενημένων ἀμφοτέρων τούτων τῷ πατρὶ πρὸς Ναυσίμαχον καὶ Ξενοπείθην τοὺς εἰληχότας ἡμῖν, παρεγραψάμεθα, ὥσπερ ἠκούσατʼ ἀρτίως, μὴ εἰσαγώγιμον εἶναι τὴν δίκην.

Against Nausimachus and Xenopeithes. Demosthenes. ed. William Rennie. Oxford. 1921.

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παραγραφὴ πρὸς Ναυσίμακον καὶ Ξενοπείθην (Greek) (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. II, Part 2. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921.)

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One of the Sons of Aristaechmus Against Nausimachus and Xenopeithes Perseus (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 1. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).) — 1 focus

[1] Inasmuch as the laws, men of the jury, have granted that a special plea may be entered in cases where a man, after giving a release and discharge,¹ nevertheless brings suit, and as both of these have been given to our father by Nausimachus and Xenopeithes who have commenced suit against us, we have pleaded, as you have just now heard, that their suit is not admissible.

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