Demosthenes, Against Phaenippus, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 6

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[6] Then I sealed the buildings, and bade Phaenippus to proceed to my property. After this I asked him where his threshed grain was, for by the gods and goddesses, men of the jury, there were two threshing-floors there, each one of nearly a plethron in extent.¹ He answered me that some of the grain had been sold, and that some was stored within.

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

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Unknown Pleader Against Phaenippus, On an Exchange of Properties (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 2. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939 (printing).)

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πρὸς Φαίνιππον περὶ ἀντιδόσεως Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. III. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931.) — 6 focus

[6] ἔπειτα παρεσημηνάμην τὰ οἰκήματα, καὶ τοῦτον ἐκέλευον εἰς τἀμὰ βαδίζειν. μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα ἠρόμην ὅπου ὁ σῖτος εἴη ὁ ἀπηλοημένος· ἦσαν γὰρ νὴ τοὺς θεοὺς καὶ τὰς θεάς, ἄνδρες δικασταί, δύο ἅλως αὐτόθι, μικροῦ πλέθρου ἑκατέρα. ὁ δὲ ἀπεκρίνατό μοι, ὅτι ὁ μὲν πεπραμένος εἴη τοῦ σίτου, ὁ δʼ ἔνδον ἀποκείμενος.

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Against Phaenippus

1. That is, in diameter. The speaker evidently expected to find large quantities of threshed grain, owing to the size of the threshing floors. The plethron was about 100 feet.

Demosthenes Against Phaenippus 6

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

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