Demosthenes, Against Evergus and Mnesibulus, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 70

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[70] and again not to institute suit before the king.¹ For that course is not open to you under the law, since the woman is not a relative of yours nor yet a servant, according to your own statement; and it is to relatives or to masters that the law appoints the duty of prosecuting. If, then, you should take the oath at the Palladium,² yourself and your wife and your children, and imprecate curses upon yourselves and your house, you will lose the goodwill of many, and if your opponent is acquitted, you will be thought to have committed perjury, and if you convict him, you will he an object of malice. No, after you have performed the proper religious rites to cleanse yourself and your house, bear your misfortune with such patience as you can, and, if you choose, avenge yourself in some other way.

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.) — 70 focus

[70] οὐδὲ γὰρ ἐν τῷ νόμῳ ἔστι σοι· οὐ γάρ ἐστιν ἐν γένει σοι ἡ ἄνθρωπος, οὐδὲ θεράπαινα, ἐξ ὧν σὺ λέγεις· οἱ δὲ νόμοι τούτων κελεύουσιν τὴν δίωξιν εἶναι· ὥστʼ εἰ διομεῖ ἐπὶ Παλλαδίῳ αὐτὸς καὶ ἡ γυνὴ καὶ τὰ παιδία καὶ καταράσεσθε αὑτοῖς καὶ τῇ οἰκίᾳ, χείρων τε δόξεις πολλοῖς εἶναι, καὶ ἐὰν μὲν ἀποφύγῃ σε, ἐπιωρκηκέναι, ἐὰν δὲ ἕλῃς, φθονήσει. ἀλλʼ ὑπὲρ σεαυτοῦ καὶ τῆς οἰκίας ἀφοσιωσάμενος ὡς ῥᾷστα τὴν συμφορὰν φέρειν, ἄλλῃ δὲ εἴ πῃ βούλει, τιμωροῦ.

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Against Evergus and Mnesibulus

1. That is, the king-archon; cf. Dem. 43.42 and Dem. 43.43

2. The Palladium (properly a statue of Pallas) was the name of the place where the court of the ἐφέται held its sessions. On this court see Dem. 43.57 , with the note.

Demosthenes Against Evergus and Mnesibulus 70

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