Antiphon, On the murder of Herodes, ed. Kenneth John Maidment, 42

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[42] Then there was the second man.¹ He had travelled on the same boat as I: had been present throughout the voyage: and had been constantly in my company. When tortured in the same way, he confirmed the first and last statements of the other as true; for he declared me innocent from start to finish. On the other hand, the assertions made by the other upon the wheel, made not because they were the truth, but because they were wrung from him, he contradicted. Thus, while the one said that it was not until I had left the boat that I killed Herodes, and that he had himself helped me to remove the body after the murder, the other maintained that I did not leave the boat at all.

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).) — 42 focus

[42] ἔπειτα δὲ ὁ ἕτερος ἄνθρωπος, ὁ ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ πλοίω πλέων καὶ παρὼν διὰ τέλους καὶ συνών μοι, τῇ αὐτῇ βασάνῳ βασανιζόμενος τοῖς μὲν πρώτοις καὶ τοῖς ὕστερον λόγοις τοῖς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου συνεφέρετο ὡς ἀληθέσιν οὖσι, διὰ τέλους γάρ με ἀπέλυε, τοῖς δʼ ἐπὶ τοῦ τροχοῦ λεγομένοις, οὓς ἐκεῖνος ἀνάγκῃ μᾶλλον ἢ ἀληθείᾳ ἔλεγε, τούτοις δὲ διεφέρετο. ὁ μὲν γὰρ ἐκβάντα μʼ ἔφη ἐκ τοῦ πλοίου ἀποκτεῖναι τὸν ἄνδρα, καὶ αὐτὸς ἤδη τεθνεῶτα συνανελεῖν¹ μοι· ὁ δὲ τὸ παράπαν ἔφη οὐκ ἐκβῆναί με ἐκ τοῦ πλοίου.

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On the murder of Herodes

1. The ἐλεύθερος of Antiph. 5.49 . Since he is tortured, he cannot have been born a Greek. For further details as to both witnesses see Antiph. 5.29 note 3.

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