Demosthenes, Against Boeotus II, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 46

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[46] For it would indeed be an outrageous thing when you yourselves, after having come to terms with those who in the time of the oligarchy put to death without trial numbers of your countrymen, abide by your compact with them,¹ as men of honor should do, that you should allow this man, who was reconciled with my father while he lived, and won many advantages to which he had no right, now to renew the quarrel and to speak evil of that father when he is no more. Do not suffer this, men of the jury.

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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[46] καὶ γὰρ ἂν εἴη δεινόν, εἰ αὐτοὶ μὲν πρὸς τοὺς ἐπὶ τῆς ὀλιγαρχίας πολλοὺς τῶν πολιτῶν ἀκρίτους ἀποκτείναντας διαλλαγέντες ἐμμένετε ταῖς ὁμολογίαις, ὥσπερ χρὴ τοὺς καλοὺς κἀγαθοὺς ἄνδρας, τούτῳ δὲ πρὸς τὸν πατέρα ζῶντα καὶ διαλυθέντι καὶ πολλὰ παρὰ τὸ δίκαιον πλεονεκτήσαντι νῦν μνησικακεῖν ἐπιτρέψετε καὶ κακῶς λέγειν ἐκεῖνον.

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Against Boeotus II

1. The allusion is to the amnesty declared after the expulsion of the Thirty Tyrants. For this gentleness of the democracy see Aristot. Ath. Pol. 22.4 .

Demosthenes Against Boeotus II 46

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

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