Demosthenes, Against Boeotus I, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 17

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[17] then, after the soldiers had come back from Euboea, he was summoned on a charge of desertion, and I, as taxiarch of our tribe,¹ was compelled to receive the summons, since it was against my name, that of my father being added; and if pay had been available for the juries,² I should certainly have had to bring the case into court. If this had not occurred after the boxes³ had already been sealed, I should have brought you witnesses to prove it.

Against Boeotus I. Demosthenes. Augustus Taber Murray (Translator). London. 1936.

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

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[17] ἀπελθόντων δʼ ἐξ Εὐβοίας τῶν στρατιωτῶν λιποταξίου προσεκλήθη, κἀγὼ ταξιαρχῶν τῆς φυλῆς ἠναγκαζόμην κατὰ τοὐνόματος τοῦ ἐμαυτοῦ πατρόθεν δέχεσθαι τὴν λῆξιν· καὶ εἰ μισθὸς ἐπορίσθη τοῖς δικαστηρίοις, εἰσῆγον ἂν δῆλον ὅτι. ταῦτα δʼ εἰ μὴ σεσημασμένων ἤδη συνέβη τῶν ἐχίνων, κἂν μάρτυρας ὑμῖν παρεσχόμην.

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Against Boeotus I

1. The taxiarchs were military officers, each in command of his tribe’s contingent of hoplites.

2. Evidently shortage of funds might prevent the courts from sitting; and the Euboean campaign had depleted the treasury.

3. The ἐχῖνοι were receptacles in which the documents, etc., pertaining to the case were put under seal, to be opened only when the case was called. See note on Dem. 34.46

Demosthenes Against Boeotus I 17

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

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