Demosthenes, Apollodorus Against Timotheus, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 55

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[55] Now, as to the bowls and the mina of silver, which he borrowed from my father when he sent his bodyservant Aeschrion to my father in the night, I asked him before the arbitrator if Aeschrion was still a slave, and demanded that he be put to the test in his hide.¹ He answered that Aeschrion was free, so I desisted from my demand; but I required him to put in a deposition made by Aeschrion as being a free man.

Apollodorus Against Timotheus. Demosthenes. Augustus Taber Murray (Translator). London. 1939.

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Apollodorus Against Timotheus in the Matter of a Debt (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 2. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939 (printing).)

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πρὸς Τιμόθεον ὑπὲρ χρέως Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. III. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931.) — 55 focus

[55] περὶ μὲν τοίνυν τῶν φιαλῶν καὶ τῆς μνᾶς τοῦ ἀργυρίου, ἣν ἐδανείσατο παρὰ τοῦ πατρὸς πέμψας τὸν ἀκόλουθον τὸν ἑαυτοῦ Αἰσχρίωνα τῆς νυκτὸς ὡς τὸν πατέρα τὸν ἐμόν, ἠρόμην αὐτὸν πρὸς τῷ διαιτητῇ εἰ ἔτι δοῦλος εἴη ὁ Αἰσχρίων, καὶ ἠξίουν αὐτὸν ἐν τῷ δέρματι τὸν ἔλεγχον διδόναι. ἀποκριναμένου δέ μοι τούτου ὅτι ἐλεύθερος εἴη, τῆς μὲν ἐξαιτήσεως ἐπέσχον, μαρτυρίαν δʼ αὐτὸν ἠξίουν ἐμβαλέσθαι τοῦ Αἰσχρίωνος ὡς ἐλευθέρου ὄντος.

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Apollodorus Against Timotheus

1. That is, under the torture; in this case apparently scourging.

Demosthenes Apollodorus Against Timotheus 55

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

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