Demosthenes, Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 123

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[123] To prove that I so challenged him, the clerk shall read to you the deposition regarding these matters and the challenge.

(To the clerk.)

Read the deposition and then the challenge.

The Deposition

Hippocrates, son of Hippocrates, of Probalinthus,¹ Demosthenes, son of Demosthenes, of Paeania, Diophanes, son of Diophanes, of Alopecê, Deinomenes, son of Archelaus, of Cydathenaeum, Deinias, son of Phormides, of Cydantidae, and Lysimachus, son of Lysippus, of Aegilia, depose that they were present in the agora, when Apollodorus challenged Stephanus, demanding that he deliver up the women-servants for the torture in regard to the charges preferred against Stephanus by Apolodorus concerning Neaera; and that Stephanus refused to deliver up the women-servants; and that the challenge was the one which Apollodorus produces.

Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera. Demosthenes. Augustus Taber Murray (Translator). London. 1939.

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Current edition Perseus

Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 3. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939 (printing).)

Editions (1)

κατὰ Νεαίρας Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. III. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931.) — 123 focus

[123] ὡς δὲ προὐκαλεσάμην, τούτων ὑμῖν τήν τε μαρτυρίαν καὶ τὴν πρόκλησιν ἀναγνώσεται. λέγε τὴν μαρτυρίαν, ἔπειτα τὴν πρόκλησιν.

ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΑ.

Ἱπποκράτης Ἱπποκράτους Προβαλίσιος, Δημοσθένης Δημοσθένους Παιανιεύς, Διοφάνης Διοφάνους Ἀλωπεκῆθεν, Δεινομένης Ἀρχελάου Κυδαθηναιεύς, Δεινίας Φόρμου Κυδαντίδης, Λυσίμαχος Λυσίππου Αἰγιλιεὺς μαρτυροῦσι παρεῖναι ἐν ἀγορᾷ ὅτʼ Ἀπολλόδωρος προὐκαλεῖτο Στέφανον, ἀξιῶν παραδοῦναι εἰς βάσανον τὰς θεραπαίνας περὶ ὧν ᾐτιᾶτο Ἀπολλόδωρος Στέφανον περὶ Νεαίρας· στέφανον δʼ οὐκ ἐθελῆσαι παραδοῦναι τὰς θεραπαίνας· τὴν δὲ πρόκλησιν εἶναι ἣν παρέχεται Ἀπολλόδωρος.

Notes on the current edition

Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera

1. Probalinthus was a deme of the tribe Pandionis, Paeania of the tribe Pandionis, Alopecê of the tribe Antiochis, Cydathenaeum of the tribe Pandionis, Cydantidae of the tribe Aegeïs, and Aegilia of the tribe Antiochis.

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