Demosthenes, Apollodorus Against Nicostratus, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 23

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[23] I answered, however, in the presence of witnesses, that I was ready to go with them to the senate, and in conjunction with the senate or the Eleven¹ to receive the slaves for the torture, telling them that, if my suit against them had been a private one, I should have accepted the slaves for the torture, if they had offered them, but that, as it was, both the slaves and the information belonged to the state²; and therefore the examination by the torture should be conducted by a public official.

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

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Apollodorus Against Nicostratus in the Matter of Slaves of Aresthusius (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 3. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939 (printing).)

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πρὸς Νικόστρατον περὶ ἀνδραπόδων ἀπογραφῆς Ἀρεθουσίου Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. III. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931.) — 23 focus

[23] ἐγὼ δὲ ἀπεκρινάμην αὐτοῖς ἐναντίον μαρτύρων, ὅτι ἕτοιμός εἰμι ἰέναι εἰς τὴν βουλὴν μετʼ αὐτῶν καὶ παραλαμβάνειν μετʼ ἐκείνης ἢ μετὰ τῶν ἕνδεκα, λέγων ὅτι, εἰ μὲν ἰδίαν δίκην ἐδικαζόμην αὐτοῖς, εἰ ἐμοὶ ἐξεδίδοσαν, παρελάμβανον ἄν, νῦν δὲ τῆς πόλεως εἴη τὰ ἀνδράποδα καὶ ἡ ἀπογραφή· δεῖν οὖν δημοσίᾳ βασανίζεσθαι.

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Apollodorus Against Nicostratus

1. The board of police commissioners at Athens .

2. Since Arethusius was a state-debtor.

Demosthenes Apollodorus Against Nicostratus 23

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

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