Isaeus, On the Estate of Dicaeogenes, Edward Seymour Forster (Translator), 36

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[36] It is well worth your while to look into the matter. He acted as choregus for his tribe at the Dionysia and was fourth; as choregus in the tragic contest and Pyrrhic dances he was last.¹ These were the only public services which he undertook and then only under compulsion, and this was the fine show he made as choregus in spite of his great wealth! Moreover, though so many trierarchs were appointed, he never acted in this capacity by himself nor has he ever been associated in it with another² in all those years of crisis; yet others possessing less capital than he has income, act as trierarchs.

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

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

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Περὶ τοῦ Δικαιογένους κλήρου Perseus (Isaeus. Forster, Edward Seymour, editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1927 (1962 printing).) — 36 focus

[36] ἄξιον δὲ καὶ ὑμῖν λογίσασθαι. οὗτος γὰρ τῇ μὲν φυλῇ εἰς Διονύσια χορηγήσας τέταρτος ἐγένετο, τραγῳδοῖς δὲ καὶ πυρριχισταῖς¹ ὕστατος· ταύτας δὲ μόνας ἀναγκασθεὶς 〈τὰς〉² λῃτουργίας λειτουργῆσαι ἀπὸ τοσαύτης προσόδου οὕτω καλῶς ἐχορήγησεν. ἀλλὰ μὴν τριηράρχων τοσούτων κατασταθέντων οὔτʼ αὐτὸς ἐτριηράρχησεν οὔθʼ ἑτέρῳ συμβέβληται³ ἐν τοιούτοις καιροῖς, ἀλλʼ ἕτεροι⁴ μὲν οὐσίαν κεκτημένοι ἐλάττω ἢ οὗτος μίσθωσιν λαμβάνει τριηραρχοῦσι.

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On the Estate of Dicaeogenes

1. In the dithyrambic contests the competition was by tribes, thus the chorus of which Dicaeogenes was choregus was placed fourth out of ten competing choruses. The tragic competition was between three choruses, not organized on a tribal basis. The Pyrrhic or Warrior Dance was executed at the Panathenaic festival; there is no evidence as to the number of competing choruses.

2. After the battle of Aegospotami ( 405 B.C.) two citizens might jointly equip a vessel of war.

Isaeus On the Estate of Dicaeogenes 36

Edward Seymour Forster (Translator)

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