Demosthenes, Against Theocrines, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 35

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[35]

(To the clerk.)

Call, please, Aristomachus, son of Critodemus, of Alopecê,¹ for it is he who paid—or rather in whose house were paid—the mina and a half to this man who cannot be bribed, in the matter of the decree which Antimedon proposed on behalf of the people of Tenedos .²

The Deposition

Read also in sequence the other depositions of the same sort, and that of Hypereides³ and Demosthenes. For this goes beyond all else—that the fellow should be most glad, by selling indictments to get money from men, from whom no one else would think of demanding it.⁴

The Depositions

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.) — 35 focus

[35] κάλει μοι Ἀριστόμαχον Κριτοδήμου Ἀλωπεκῆθεν. οὗτος γὰρ ἔδωκεν, μᾶλλον δʼ ἐν τῇ τούτου οἰκίᾳ ἐδόθη τρίʼ ἡμίμναια τούτῳ τῷ ἀδωροδοκήτῳ ὑπὲρ τοῦ ψηφίσματος ὃ Ἀντιμέδων ἔγραψε τοῖς Τενεδίοις.

ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΑ.

λέγε δὴ καὶ τὰς τῶν ἄλλων ἐφεξῆς τὰς τοιαύτας μαρτυρίας, καὶ τὴν Ὑπερείδου καὶ Δημοσθένους. τοῦτο γάρ ἐστιν ὑπερβολή, τὸ παρʼ ὧν οὐδʼ ἂν εἷς ἀξιώσαι λαβεῖν, τοῦτον παρὰ τούτων ἥδιστα λαμβάνειν πωλοῦντα τὰς γραφάς.

ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΑΙ.

Notes on the current edition

Against Theocrines

1. Alopecê, a deme of the tribe Antiochis.

2. Tenedos , an island in the Aegean , off the west coast of Phrygia .

3. A prominent Athenian orator and statesman.

4. That is, these men were too influential to fear blackmail from a man like Theocrines.

Demosthenes Against Theocrines 35

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)