Demosthenes, Against Leochares, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 58

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[58] But, if it is possible without an affidavit of objections to obtain a hearing before all tribunals, is not the use of one a mark of recklessness and utter desperation? For the lawgiver did not make it obligatory on the contending parties, but granted them the privilege of putting in such an affidavit, if they chose, as though he were testing the character of each one of us, to see how we stand with reference to a reckless procedure.¹

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

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Aristodemus Against Leochares Regarding the Estate of Archiades (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 2. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939 (printing).)

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[58] εἰ δὲ καὶ ἄνευ διαμαρτυρίας πρὸς ἅπασι τοῖς συνεδρίοις ἔνεστι λόγου μὴ ἀποστερηθῆναι, πῶς οὐ προπετείας καὶ τῆς μεγίστης ἀπονοίας σημεῖον τὸ διαμαρτυρεῖν ἐστιν; οὐδὲ γὰρ ὁ νομοθέτης ἀναγκαῖον αὐτὸ ἐποίησεν τοῖς ἀντιδίκοις, ἀλλʼ ἂν βούλωνται διαμαρτυρεῖν, ἔδωκεν, ὥσπερ διάπειραν ποιούμενος τῶν τρόπων ἑνὸς ἑκάστου ἡμῶν, πῶς ποτʼ ἔχοιμεν πρὸς τὸ προπετῶς τι πράττειν.

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Against Leochares

1. There is, of course, the implication that those having recourse to this procedure thereby showed themselves either unscrupulous or in despair of their case.

Demosthenes Against Leochares 58

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

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