Demosthenes, Against Boeotus II, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 37

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[37] for this he brings suit against me, alleging that I had collected a debt due to my father from the city of the Mytileneans. In this he was seeking to serve Cammys,¹ tyrant of Mytilene, who is an enemy of Athens and a private enemy of mine.

But to prove that my father at the time received in person the reward which the people of Mytilene voted him, and that no debt was owing to him in Mytilene, I will produce a deposition of your friends.

The Deposition

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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[37] περὶ τούτων μοι δικάζεται ὡς πατρικὸν κεκομισμένῳ χρέως παρὰ τῆς πόλεως τῆς Μυτιληναίων, Καμμῦ τῷ τυραννοῦντι Μυτιλήνης ὑπηρετῶν, ὃς καὶ ὑμῖν κοινῇ καὶ ἐμοὶ ἰδίᾳ ἐχθρός ἐστιν. ὅτι δὲ ὁ πατὴρ ἡμῶν, ἣν ἐψηφίσαντο αὐτῷ δωρεὰν οἱ Μυτιληναῖοι, εὐθὺς αὐτὸς ἐκομίσατο, καὶ ὡς οὐδὲν ὠφείλετο αὐτῷ χρέως ἐν Μυτιλήνῃ, τῶν ὑμετέρων φίλων παρέξομαι μαρτυρίαν.

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Against Boeotus II

1. A tyrant of Mytilene, otherwise unknown.

Demosthenes Against Boeotus II 37

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

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