Demosthenes, On the Trierarchic Crown, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 16

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[16] It is right that I should say something about those who have spoken as their advocates. Certain people are so convinced that they have the right to do or say whatever they please before you, that some of those who joined with Aristophon¹ in preferring his charges, and were bitter against those who let out their trierarchies, now bid you to crown these people here; and they prove one or the other of two things against themselves. Either in the former instance they brought forward charges that were baseless, or they have now been bribed to plead the cause of my opponents;

On the Trierarchic Crown. Demosthenes. Augustus Taber Murray (Translator). London. 1939.

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On the Trierarchic Crown, by an Unknown Pleader (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 3. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939 (printing).)

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περὶ τοῦ Στεφάνου τῆς τριηραρκίας Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. III. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931.) — 16 focus

[16] ἄξιον τοίνυν καὶ περὶ τῶν συνειρηκότων εἰπεῖν. οὕτως γὰρ ἡγοῦνταί τινες ἐξουσίαν εἶναι σφίσιν καὶ ποιεῖν ὅ τι βούλονται καὶ λέγειν παρʼ ὑμῖν, ὥστε τῶν τότε συγκατηγορούντων μετʼ Ἀριστοφῶντος καὶ πικρῶν ὄντων τοῖς μεμισθωκόσι τὰς τριηραρχίας νῦν κελεύουσί τινες τούτους στεφανῶσαι, καὶ δυοῖν θάτερον ἐξελέγχουσιν αὑτούς, ἢ τότʼ ἐκείνους ἀδίκως συκοφαντοῦντες, ἢ νῦν τοῖσδʼ ἐπὶ μισθῷ συνηγοροῦντες.

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On the Trierarchic Crown

1. This was the celebrated Aristophon of Azenia, who is stated in Aeschin. 3.194 to have averred that he had been acquitted seventy-five times on the charge of introducing bills that were illegal.

Demosthenes On the Trierarchic Crown 16

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

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