Antiphon, Against the Stepmother for Poisoning, ed. Kenneth John Maidment, 9

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[9] τοῦτο μὲν γὰρ ἠθέλησα μὲν¹ τὰ τούτων ἀνδράποδα βασανίσαι, ἃ συνῄδει καὶ πρότερον τὴν γυναῖκα ταύτην, μητέρα δὲ τούτων, τῷ πατρὶ τῷ ἡμετέρῳ θάνατον μηχανωμένην φαρμάκοις, καὶ τὸν πατέρα εἰληφότα ἐπʼ αὐτοφώρῳ, ταύτην τε οὐκ οὖσαν ἄπαρνον, πλὴν οὐκ ἐπὶ θανάτῳ φάσκουσαν διδόναι ἀλλʼ ἐπὶ φίλτροις.

Against the Stepmother for Poisoning. Antiphon. ed. Kenneth John Maidment. London. 1941.

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Φαρμακείας κατὰ τῆς μητρυιᾶς (Greek) (Antiphon. Minor Attic Orators, Vol. 1. Maidment, Kenneth John, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1941 (printing); 1960 (reprint).)

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Prosecution Of The Stepmother For Poisoning Perseus (Antiphon. Minor Attic Orators, Vol. 1. Maidment, Kenneth John, translator. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1941 (printing); 1960 (reprint).) — 9 focus

[9] In the first place, I was ready to torture the defendants’ slaves, who knew that this woman, my opponents’ mother, had planned to poison our father on a previous occasion as well, that our father had caught her in the act, and that she had admitted everything— save that it was not to kill him, but to restore his love that she alleged herself to be giving him the potion.

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Against the Stepmother for Poisoning

1. πῶς ... εἰδέναι om. Ν.

Antiphon Against the Stepmother for Poisoning 9

ed. Kenneth John Maidment

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