Demosthenes, Against Boeotus II, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 36

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[36] In addition to all this, on the charge that, when I was on military service and had collected mercenaries with Ameinias¹(seeing that I was well-provided with funds from other sources, and had collected from Mytilene from your proxenus² Apollonides and the friends of our city three hundred Phocaic staters,³ and had spent that sum upon these troops, in order that a matter might be prosecuted which was of advantage to you and to them alike)—

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

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

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πρὸς Βοιωτὸν περὶ προικὸς μητρῴας Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. II, Part 2. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921.) — 36 focus

[36] πρὸς τούτοις τοίνυν καὶ ὅτι ἐγὼ στρατευόμενος καὶ μετὰ Ἀμεινίου ξενολογήσας, ἄλλοθέν τε χρήματα εὐπορήσας καὶ ἐκ Μυτιλήνης παρὰ τοῦ ὑμετέρου προξένου Ἀπολλωνίδου καὶ παρὰ τῶν φίλων τῆς πόλεως λαβὼν τριακοσίους στατῆρας Φωκαιᾶς, ἀνήλωσα εἰς τοὺς στρατιώτας, ἵνα πρᾶξίς τις πραχθείη καὶ ὑμῖν καὶ ἐκείνοις συμφέρουσα,

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Against Boeotus II

1. Apparently an otherwise unknown commander of mercenary troops, under whom Mantitheus served as taxiarch.

2. A state representative in a foreign land, somewhat analogous to our consul.

3. The stater of Phocaea (a city on the coast of Ionia) was a gold coin somewhat heavier than the stater of Cyzicus ( Dem. 34.23 ).

Demosthenes Against Boeotus II 36

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

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