Antiphon, On the murder of Herodes, ed. Kenneth John Maidment, 17

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[17] Then again, gentlemen, my imprisonment was an act of illegality quite without parallel. I was ready to furnish the three sureties required by law; yet the prosecution took steps to ensure that I should be prevented from doing so. Hitherto no alien willing to furnish sureties has ever been imprisoned; and, moreover, the law concerned applies to the custodians of malefactors¹ as it does to others. Here again, then, we have a law by which every one benefits: and it has failed to release me, and me alone, from confinement.

On the murder of Herodes. Antiphon. ed. Kenneth John Maidment. London. 1941.

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On the Murder of Herodes (English) (Antiphon. Minor Attic Orators, Vol. 1. Maidment, Kenneth John, translator. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1941 (printing); 1960 (reprint).)

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Περὶ τοῦ Ἡρῷδου φόνου Perseus (Antiphon. Minor Attic Orators, Vol. 1. Maidment, Kenneth John, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1941 (printing); 1960 (reprint).) — 17 focus

[17] ἔτι δὲ μάλʼ ἐδέθην, ὦ ἄνδρες, παρανομώτατα ἁπάντων ἀνθρώπων. ἐθέλοντος γάρ μου ἐγγυητὰς τρεῖς καθιστάναι κατὰ τὸν νόμου, οὕτως οὗτοι¹ διεπράξαντο τοῦτο ὥστε μὴ ἐγγενέσθαι μοι² ποιῆσαι. τῶν δὲ ἄλλων ξένων ὅτις πώποτε ἠθέλησε καταστῆσαι ἐγγυητάς, οὐδεὶς πώποτʼ ἐδέθη. καίτοι οἱ ἐπιμεληταὶ τῶν κακούργων τῷ αὐτῷ χρῶνται νόμῳ τούτῳ. ὥστε καὶ οὗτος κοινὸς τοῖς ἄλλοις πᾶσιν ὢν ἐμοὶ μόνῳ ἐπέλιπε μὴ ἀπολῦσαι τοῦ δεσμοῦ.³

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1. i.e., the Eleven, who were the magistrates concerned in the ἔνδειξις of a κακοῦργος and who were responsible for his safe custody pending trial.

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