Demosthenes, Against Spudias, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 10

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[10] that this fellow should show no regard either for your laws or for the will of Polyeuctus, or for the papers which have been left, or for those who knew the facts, but in the face of all this should have come into court to contest my plea.

(To the clerk.)

Please take first the law which denies the right of action for mortgaged property against the holders of the mortgage, then the papers which were left, and the deposition of Aristogenes.

The Law. The Papers. The Deposition

Against Spudias. Demosthenes. Augustus Taber Murray (Translator). London. 1939.

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An Unknown Pleader Against Spudias in the Matter of a Marriage Proposal (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 2. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939 (printing).)

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πρὸς Σπουδίαν ὑπὲρ προικός Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. III. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931.) — 10 focus

[10] τοῦτον δὲ μήτε τῶν νόμων τῶν ὑμετέρων φροντίζειν μήθʼ ὧν διέθετο Πολύευκτος μήτε τῶν καταλειφθέντων γραμμάτων μήτε τῶν συνειδότων, ἀλλὰ πρὸς ἅπαντα ταῦθʼ ἥκειν ἀντιδικήσοντα;

λαβὲ δή μοι πρῶτον μὲν τὸν νόμον, ὃς οὐκ ἐᾷ τῶν ἀποτιμηθέντων ἔτι δίκην εἶναι πρὸς τοὺς ἔχοντας, ἔπειτα τὰ γράμματα τὰ καταλειφθέντα καὶ τὴν μαρτυρίαν τὴν Ἀριστογένους.

Demosthenes Against Spudias 10

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

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(To the clerk.)

The Law. The Papers. The Deposition

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ΝΟΜΟΣ. ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΑ. ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΑ.

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