Demosthenes, Against Eubulides, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 18

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[18] They have maliciously asserted that my father spoke with a foreign accent. But that he was taken prisoner by the enemy in the course of the Decelean war¹ and was sold into slavery and taken to Leucas , and that he there fell in with Cleander,² the actor, and was brought back here to his kinsfolk after a long lapse of time—all this they have omitted to state; but just as though it were right that I should be brought to ruin on account of his misfortunes, they have made his foreign accent the basis of a charge against him.

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

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Euxitheus Against Eubulides, an Appeal (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 3. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939 (printing).)

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ἔφεσις πρὸς Εὐβουλίδην Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. III. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931.) — 18 focus

[18] διαβεβλήκασι γάρ μου τὸν πατέρα, ὡς ἐξένιζεν· καὶ ὅτι μὲν ἁλοὺς ὑπὸ τῶν πολεμίων ὑπὸ τὸν Δεκελεικὸν πόλεμον καὶ πραθεὶς εἰς Λευκάδα, Κλεάνδρῳ περιτυχὼν τῷ ὑποκριτῇ πρὸς τοὺς οἰκείους ἐσώθη δεῦρο πολλοστῷ χρόνῳ, παραλελοίπασιν, ὥσπερ δὲ δέον ἡμᾶς διʼ ἐκείνας τὰς ἀτυχίας ἀπολέσθαι, τὸ ξενίζειν αὐτοῦ κατηγορήκασιν.

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Against Eubulides

1. The latter period of the Peloponnesian war, 413-404 B.C., is often called the Decelean war, because the Lacedaemonians, who had again invaded Attica , occupied the town of Decelea, not far from Athens , and maintained a garrison there.

2. The modern Leukas , or Santa Maura , off the west coast of Acarnania .

Demosthenes Against Eubulides 18

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

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