Demosthenes, Against Evergus and Mnesibulus, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 43

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[43] And when the senate was going into a division on the question whether it should remand him to a jury-court or sentence him to a fine of five hundred drachmae, the highest penalty which the law allowed it to inflict, while all these men were making pleas and entreaties and sending any number of people to intercede for them, and offering us right there in the senate-chamber the inventory of the equipment due, and promising to submit the question of the assault to any one of the Athenians whom I should name, I consented that a fine of twenty-five drachmae¹ should be imposed upon Theophemus.

Against Evergus and Mnesibulus. Demosthenes. Augustus Taber Murray (Translator). London. 1939.

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Unknown Pleader Against Evergus and Mnesibulus, About False Testimony (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 2. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939 (printing).)

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κατὰ Εὐέργου καὶ Μνησιβούλου ψευδομαρτυριῶν Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. III. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931.) — 43 focus

[43] καὶ ἐπειδὴ ἐν τῷ διαχειροτονεῖν ἦν ἡ βουλὴ πότερα δικαστηρίῳ παραδοίη ἢ ζημιώσειε ταῖς πεντακοσίαις, ὅσου ἦν κυρία κατὰ τὸν νόμον, δεομένων τούτων ἁπάντων καὶ ἱκετευόντων καὶ τίνα οὐ προσπεμπόντων; καὶ τὸ διάγραμμα τῶν σκευῶν ἀποδιδόντων εὐθὺς ἐν τῇ βουλῇ, καὶ περὶ τῶν πληγῶν φασκόντων ἐπιτρέψειν ᾧ ἂν κελεύσω Ἀθηναίων, συνεχώρησα ὥστε τῷ Θεοφήμῳ πέντε καὶ εἴκοσι δραχμῶν προστιμηθῆναι.

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Against Evergus and Mnesibulus

1. The text would naturally mean an additional fine, but the speaker is emphasizing his reasonableness in his treatment of his opponents. This was shown by his consenting to a fine of merely 5 drachmae, whereas it might have been 500 drachmae with confiscation of the defendant’s property. I think the προς- means a fine in addition to the other charges to which the defendant was already liable.

Demosthenes Against Evergus and Mnesibulus 43

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

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