Demosthenes, Apollodorus Against Polycles, ed. William Rennie, 67

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[67] ἡδέως δʼ ἂν ὑμῶν πυθοίμην, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, τίνʼ ἄν ποτε γνώμην περὶ ἐμοῦ εἴχετε, εἰ τοῦ τε χρόνου ἐξήκοντος καὶ τούτου μὴ ἥκοντος ἐπὶ τὴν ναῦν μὴ ἐπετριηράρχησα κελεύοντος τοῦ στρατηγοῦ, ἀλλὰ πλέων ᾠχόμην. ἆρʼ οὐκ ἂν ὠργίζεσθέ μοι καὶ ἡγεῖσθε ἂν ἀδικεῖν; εἰ τοίνυν ἂν ἐμοὶ τότε ὠργίζεσθε, ὅτι οὐκ ἐπετριηράρχησα, πῶς οὐχὶ νῦν προσήκει ὑμᾶς τοῦτον εἰσπρᾶξαί μοι τὰ ἀναλώματα, ἃ ἐγὼ ὑπὲρ τούτου ἀνήλωσα, τὸν οὐ διαδεξάμενον τὴν ναῦν.

Apollodorus Against Polycles. Demosthenes. ed. William Rennie. Oxford. 1931.

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πρὸς Πολυκλέα περὶ τοῦ ἐπιτριηραρχήματος (Greek) (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. III. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931.)

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Apollodorus Against Polycles for Expenses Incurred while Serving as Trierarch Perseus (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 3. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939 (printing).) — 67 focus

[67] I should gladly ask you, men of the jury, what opinion you would have had of me, if, when my term of service had expired and the defendant had not come to take over the ship, I had refused to serve longer when the general so ordered, but had sailed away. Would you not have been indignant and have thought that I was wronging you? If, then, you would have been indignant in that case, because I refused to serve beyond my term, should you not now exact from the defendant the money expended by me on his behalf, seeing that he did not take over the ship?

Demosthenes Apollodorus Against Polycles 67

ed. William Rennie

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