Isaeus, On the Estate of Nicostratus, Edward Seymour Forster (Translator), 28

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[28] so that it is much more fitting that they should claim to receive the estate by gift than Chariades. The latter, when he resided here, was first caught in the act of theft and thrown into prison; he was subsequently released with certain other criminals by the Eleven,¹ all of whom you publicly condemned to death,² and, having been again denounced to the Council as a malefactor, he absconded and did not appear to answer the charge,

On the Estate of Nicostratus. Isaeus. Edward Seymour Forster (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1962.

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On the Estate of Nicostratus (English) (Isaeus. Forster, Edward Seymour, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1927 (1962 printing).)

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Περὶ τοῦ Νικοστράτου κλήρου (ἐπίλογος) Perseus (Isaeus. Forster, Edward Seymour, editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1927 (1962 printing).) — 28 focus

[28] ὥστε πολὺ μᾶλλον τούτους προσήκει κατὰ δόσιν τῶν χρημάτων τῶν Νικοστράτου ἢ Χαριάδην ἀμφισβητεῖν. οὗτος γάρ, ὅτʼ ἐπεδήμει ἐνθάδε, πρῶτον μὲν εἰς τὸ δεσμωτήριον ὡς κλέπτης ὢν ἐπʼ αὐτοφώρῳ ἀπήχθη, τότε δὲ ἀφεθεὶς μεθʼ ἑτέρων τινῶν ὑπὸ τῶν ἕνδεκα, οὓς δημοσίᾳ ἅπαντας ὑμεῖς ἀπεκτείνατε, πάλιν ἀπογραφεὶς εἰς τὴν βουλὴν κακουργῶν, ὑποχωρῶν ᾤχετο καὶ οὐχ ὑπήκουσεν,

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On the Estate of Nicostratus

1. The police-magistrates of Athens .

2. The context seems to imply that these magistrates were tried and condemned for allowing prisoners to escape, but nothing is known of the circumstance.

Isaeus On the Estate of Nicostratus 28

Edward Seymour Forster (Translator)

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