Demosthenes, Against Evergus and Mnesibulus, ed. William Rennie, 21

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[21] τούτου τοίνυν τοῦ ψηφίσματος γεγενημένου, ἡ μὲν ἀρχὴ ἐπεκλήρωσεν καὶ παρέδωκε τοὺς ὀφείλοντας τὰ σκεύη τῇ πόλει , οἱ δὲ τῶν νεωρίων ἐπιμεληταὶ τοῖς τριηράρχοις τοῖς ἐκπλέουσιν τότε καὶ τοῖς ἐπιμεληταῖς τοῖς ἐν ταῖς συμμορίαις. ὁ δὲ νόμος ὁ τοῦ Περιάνδρου ἠνάγκαζεν καὶ προσέταττεν παραλαβεῖν τοὺς ὀφείλοντας τὰ σκεύη, καθʼ ὃν αἱ συμμορίαι συνετάχθησαν. πρὸς δὲ τούτοις ἕτερον ψήφισμα δήμου ἠνάγκαζε τὸ πρὸς μέρος ἡμῖν διδόναι τῶν ὀφειλόντων ἕκαστον εἰσπράξασθαι.

Against Evergus and Mnesibulus. Demosthenes. ed. William Rennie. Oxford. 1931.

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

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Unknown Pleader Against Evergus and Mnesibulus, About False Testimony Perseus (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 2. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939 (printing).) — 21 focus

[21] When this decree had been passed, the magistrates chose by lot those who owed the ship’s equipment to the state and handed over their names, and the overseers of the dockyards passed on the list to the trierarchs who were then about to sail, and to the overseers of the navy-boards. The law of Periander¹ forced us and laid command upon us to receive the list of those who owed equipment to the state,—I mean the law in accordance with which the navy-boards were constituted. And besides this another decree of the people compelled them to assign to us the several debtors that we might recover from each man his proportionate amount.

Demosthenes Against Evergus and Mnesibulus 21

ed. William Rennie

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