Demosthenes, Against Theocrines, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 33

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[33] If now my father had been well-to-do, men of the jury, and able to provide a thousand drachmae, he would have got off entirely free from the indictment for illegality; for that was the sum the defendant demanded of him.

(To the clerk.)

Call, please, Philippides of Paeania¹ to whom this fellow Theocrines made this statement, and the others who know that he made it.

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

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Current edition Perseus

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).)

Editions (1)

ἔνδειξις κατὰ Θεοκρίνου Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. III. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931.) — 33 focus

[33] εἰ τοίνυν εὔπορος ἦν ὁ πατήρ, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, καὶ δυνατὸς πορίσαι χιλίας δραχμάς, ὅλως ἂν ἀπηλλάγη τῆς γραφῆς τῆς τῶν παρανόμων· τοσοῦτον γὰρ αὐτὸν ᾔτει οὑτοσί. καί μοι κάλει Φιλιππίδην τὸν Παιανιέα, πρὸς ὃν ἔλεγε ταῦτα Θεοκρίνης οὑτοσί, καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους οἳ συνίσασιν τούτῳ ταῦτα λέγοντι.

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Notes on the current edition

Against Theocrines

1. Paeania, a deme of the tribe Pandionis.

Demosthenes Against Theocrines 33