Demosthenes, Apollodorus Against Polycles, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 4

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[4] On the twenty-fourth day of the month Metageitnion¹ in the archonship of Molon,² when an assembly had been held and tidings of many serious events had been brought before you, you voted that the trierarchs (of whom I was one) should launch their ships. It is not necessary for me to go into details regarding the crisis which had at that time befallen the state; you of yourselves know that Tenos³ had been seized by Alexander, and its people had been reduced to slavery;

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

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Apollodorus Against Polycles for Expenses Incurred while Serving as Trierarch (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 3. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939 (printing).)

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[4] ἑβδόμῃ γὰρ φθίνοντος μεταγειτνιῶνος μηνὸς ἐπὶ Μόλωνος ἄρχοντος, ἐκκλησίας γενομένης καὶ εἰσαγγελθέντων ὑμῖν πολλῶν καὶ μεγάλων πραγμάτων, ἐψηφίσασθε τὰς ναῦς καθέλκειν τοὺς τριηράρχους· ὧν καὶ ἐγὼ ἦν. καὶ τὸν μὲν καιρὸν τὸν συμβεβηκότα τῇ πόλει τότε οὐκ ἐμὲ δεῖ διεξελθεῖν, ἀλλʼ ὑμᾶς αὐτοὺς ἀναμνησθῆναι, ὅτι Τῆνος μὲν καταληφθεῖσα ὑπʼ Ἀλεξάνδρου ἐξηνδραποδίσθη,

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Apollodorus Against Polycles

1. Metageitnion corresponds to the latter half of August and the prior half of September.

2. The archonship of Molon falls in 362 B.C.

3. Tenos, one of the Cyclades islands in the Aegean Sea, had been captured by the fleet on Alexander of Pherae, who at this time was master of Thessaly.

Demosthenes Apollodorus Against Polycles 4

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