Demosthenes, Against Phaenippus, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 9

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[9] Then I had forbidden that wood should be carried off; he carried it off every day except that on which I issued the order. There was no debt charged against the farm; he now reports a number of debts. In a word, he does just what he pleases, not what the laws bid him do.

(To the clerk.)

Read the depositions, first those concerning the mine, and then the others as well.

The Depositions

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.) — 9 focus

[9] ἔπειτʼ ἀπεῖπον τὴν ὕλην μὴ ἐξάγειν· ἐξῆγεν οὗτος ἁπάσας τὰς ἡμέρας, πλὴν ἐκείνης ἐν ᾗ ἐγὼ ἀπεῖπον. χρέως οὐδʼ ὁτιοῦν ὠφείλετʼ ἐπὶ τῇ ἐσχατιᾷ· νῦν οὗτος ἀποφαίνει πολλά. ἁπλῶς ποιεῖ ὅ τι ἂν βούληται, οὐχ ὅ τι οἱ νόμοι κελεύουσιν. λέγε τὰς μαρτυρίας, πρῶτον μὲν τὰς περὶ τοῦ μετάλλου, ἔπειτα καὶ τὰς ἄλλας.

Demosthenes Against Phaenippus 9

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

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(To the clerk.)

The Depositions

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