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

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[10] So, since they had formed their plot in this way, and each backed up the other’s charges against us, when the four ballot-boxes¹ were set out according to law, the jurymen, naturally enough, as I think, were deceived and could not agree with one another, and being led astray by this trick, they voted each as chance determined. And there were a very few more votes—some three or four—in the box of Theopompus than in that of the lady.

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

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Sositheus Against Macartatus in Regard to the Estate of Hagnias (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 2. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939 (printing).)

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πρὸς Μακάρτατον περὶ Ἁγνίου κλήρου Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. III. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931.) — 10 focus

[10] καὶ τοῦτον τὸν τρόπον ἐπιβουλευσάντων καὶ συναγωνιζομένων ἀλλήλοις ἐφʼ ἡμᾶς, καδίσκων τεττάρων τεθέντων κατὰ τὸν νόμον, εἰκότως οἶμαι οἱ δικασταὶ ἐξηπατήθησαν καὶ ἐστασίασαν ἀλλήλοις καὶ παρακρουσθέντες ὑπὸ τῆς παρασκευῆς ἐψηφίζοντο ὅ τι ἔτυχεν ἕκαστος. καὶ αἱ ψῆφοι ὀλίγαις πάνυ ἐγένοντο πλείους, ἢ τρισὶν ἢ τέτταρσιν, ἐν τῷ Θεοπόμπου καδίσκῳ ἢ ἐν τῷ τῆς γυναικός.

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Against Macartatus

1. One ballot-box, that is, for each contestant. There were five in all, but the two brothers, Glaucus and Glaucon, were apparently counted as one, since their title was the same. This problem is discussed by Wyse in his introduction to Isaeus Hag. .

Demosthenes Against Macartatus 10

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

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