Demosthenes, Against Conon, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 31

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[31] he puts into the box a false deposition, and writes at the head of it as witnesses the names of people whom I think you will know well when you hear them— Diotimus, son of Diotimus, of Icaria ,¹ Archebiades, son of Demoteles, of Halae ,² Chaeretimus, son of Chaerimenes, of Pithus,³ depose that they were returning from a dinner with Conon , and came upon Ariston and the son of Conon fighting in the agora, and that Conon did not strike Ariston,

Against Conon. Demosthenes. Augustus Taber Murray (Translator). London. 1939.

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Ariston Against Conon, an Action for Assault (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 3. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939 (printing).)

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κατὰ Κόνωνος αἰκείας Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. III. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931.) — 31 focus

[31] ἐμβάλλεται μαρτυρίαν ψευδῆ καὶ ἐπιγράφεται μάρτυρας ἀνθρώπους οὓς οὐδʼ ὑμᾶς ἀγνοήσειν οἴομαι, ἐὰν ἀκούσητε, Διότιμος Διοτίμου Ἰκαριεύς, Ἀρχεβιάδης Δημοτέλους Ἁλαιεύς, Χαιρήτιος Χαιριμένους Πιθεὺς μαρτυροῦσιν ἀπιέναι ἀπὸ δείπνου μετὰ Κόνωνος, καὶ προσελθεῖν ἐν ἀγορᾷ μαχομένοις Ἀρίστωνι καὶ τῷ υἱεῖ τῷ Κόνωνος,

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Against Conon

1. Icaria , a deme of the tribe Aegeïs.

2. There were two demes of this name, one on the east coast of Attica and the other on the Saronic Gulf. The former belonged to the tribe Aegeis, the latter to the tribe Cecropis.

3. Pithus, a deme of the tribe Cecropis.

Demosthenes Against Conon 31

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

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