Demosthenes, Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 9

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[9] For not only did Stephanus seek in this way to bring us to ruin, but he even wished to drive Apollodorus from his country. He brought a false charge against him that, having once gone to Aphidna¹ in search of a runaway slave of his, he had there struck a woman, and that she had died of the blow; and he suborned some slaves and got them to give out that they were men of Cyren,² and by public proclamation cited Apollodorus before the court of the Palladium³ on a charge of murder.

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

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

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[9] καὶ γὰρ οὐ μόνον ταύτῃ ἐζήτησεν ἀνελεῖν ἡμᾶς, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐκ τῆς πατρίδος αὐτὸν ἐβουλήθη ἐκβαλεῖν. ἐπενέγκας γὰρ αὐτῷ αἰτίαν ψευδῆ ὡς Ἀφίδναζέ ποτε ἀφικόμενος ἐπὶ δραπέτην αὑτοῦ ζητῶν πατάξειε γυναῖκα καὶ ἐκ τῆς πληγῆς τελευτήσειεν ἡ ἄνθρωπος, παρασκευασάμενος ἀνθρώπους δούλους καὶ κατασκευάσας ὡς Κυρηναῖοι εἴησαν, προεῖπεν αὐτῷ ἐπὶ Παλλαδίῳ φόνου.

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Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera

1. Aphidna, a deme of the tribe Aeantis.

2. An important city in Libya in Northern Africa.

3. For the court of the Palladium, see note b on Dem. 47.70 . In the case alluded to an ordinary court of five hundred jurors seems to have sat in the place of the Ephetae (see note a on Dem. 43.57 .).

Demosthenes Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera 9

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