Demosthenes, On the Trierarchic Crown, ed. William Rennie, 13

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[13] βούλομαι τοίνυν, ἐπειδήπερ παρῆλθον, καὶ τὰ συμβαίνοντʼ ἀπὸ τῶν τοιούτων ὑμῖν διεξελθεῖν. ἐπειδὰν γάρ τις μισθωσάμενος τριηραρχίαν ἐκπλεύσῃ, πάντας ἀνθρώπους ἄγει καὶ φέρει, καὶ τὰς μὲν ὠφελίας ἰδίᾳ καρποῦται, τὰς δὲ δίκας τούτων ὁ τυχὼν δίδωσιν ὑμῶν, καὶ μόνοις ὑμῖν οὐδαμόσε ἔστιν ἄνευ κηρυκείου βαδίσαι διὰ τὰς ὑπὸ τούτων ἀνδροληψίας καὶ σύλας κατεσκευασμένας·

On the Trierarchic Crown. Demosthenes. ed. William Rennie. Oxford. 1931.

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

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On the Trierarchic Crown, by an Unknown Pleader Perseus (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 3. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939 (printing).) — 13 focus

[13] I wish, now that I have entered upon this subject, to set forth to you also the consequences which result from such actions. When a man who has taken the trierarchy for hire sets sail, he plunders and pillages everybody; the profits he reaps for himself, but whoever it may chance to be of you citizens pays the damages; and you alone of all people are unable to travel anywhere without a herald’s staff of truce because of the acts of these men in seizing hostages and in provoking reprisals;

Demosthenes On the Trierarchic Crown 13

ed. William Rennie

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