Demosthenes, Against Theocrines, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 19

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[19] There is now a fourth law (for I admit that I have looked closely into most of the things which the defendant has done) according to which this Theocrines owes five hundred drachmae, since his father had not paid a fine of that amount to which he had been sentenced for having sought to maintain that the maid-servant of Cephisodorus was a free woman.¹ No; he fixed things with Ctesicles, the speech-writer, who was acting in the matter for his opponents, in such a way that he should neither pay the damages nor be listed on the acropolis as a debtor to the state.

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

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Epichares Against Theocrines, a Criminal Information (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 3. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939 (printing).)

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ἔνδειξις κατὰ Θεοκρίνου Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. III. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931.) — 19 focus

[19] τέταρτος τοίνυν νόμος ἐστίν (ὁμολογῶ γὰρ τῶν τούτῳ πεπραγμένων τὰ πλεῖστα ἐξητακέναι) καθʼ ὃν ὀφείλει πεντακοσίας δραχμὰς Θεοκρίνης οὑτοσί, οὐκ ἐκτετεικότος αὐτῷ τοῦ πατρὸς ἃς προσῶφλεν ἀφελόμενος τὴν Κηφισοδώρου θεράπαιναν εἰς ἐλευθερίαν, ἀλλὰ διοικησαμένου πρὸς Κτησικλέα τὸν λογογράφον, ὃς ἦν ἐπὶ τοῖς τῶν ἀντιδίκων πράγμασιν, ὥστε μήτʼ ἐκτεῖσαι μήτʼ εἰς ἀκρόπολιν ἀνενεχθῆναι.

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Against Theocrines

1. In such cases, if the parties could not come to an agreement as to whether the person in question was slave or free, the matter came into court. In the present instance the father of Theocrines had evidently not been able to make good his claim that the servant in question was a free woman, and had been ordered to pay damages to his adversary and a like sum (hence the compound verb, προσῶφλεν) as a fine to the state. See Meier and Schomann, 2. pp. 658 ff.

Demosthenes Against Theocrines 19

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

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