Demosthenes, Apollodorus Against Nicostratus, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 25

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[25] For if the men had been put to the torture privately by me, everything would have been disputed by these men; but, if publicly, we should have kept quiet, and the officers or those chosen by the senate would have carried on the torture as far as they saw fit. When I made this offer, they declared that they would not deliver up the slaves to the officials, nor would they go with me to the senate.

To prove that I am speaking the truth,

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call, please, the witnesses to these facts.

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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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[25] ἰδίᾳ μὲν γὰρ βασανιζομένων τῶν ἀνθρώπων ὑπʼ ἐμοῦ ἀντελέγετʼ ἂν ἅπαντα ὑπὸ τούτων, εἰ δὲ δημοσίᾳ, ἡμεῖς μὲν ἂν ἐσιωπῶμεν, οἱ δʼ ἄρχοντες ἢ οἱ ᾑρημένοι ὑπὸ τῆς βουλῆς ἐβασάνιζον ἂν μέχρι οὗ αὐτοῖς ἐδόκει. ταῦτα δʼ ἐμοῦ ἐθέλοντος, οὐκ ἂν ἔφασαν τῇ ἀρχῇ παραδοῦναι, οὐδʼ εἰς τὴν βουλὴν ἤθελον ἀκολουθεῖν. ὡς οὖν ἀληθῆ λέγω, κάλει μοι τούτων τοὺς μάρτυρας.

Demosthenes Apollodorus Against Nicostratus 25

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

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