Antiphon, On the murder of Herodes, ed. Kenneth John Maidment, 76

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[76] Before the revolt of Mytilene ¹ my father gave visible proof of his devotion to your interests. When, however, the city as a whole was so ill-advised as to commit the blunder of revolting,² he was forced to join the city as a whole in that blunder. Not but what even then his feelings towards you remained unchanged: although he could no longer display his devotion in the old way. It was not easy for him to leave the city, as the ties which bound him, his children, and his property, were strong ones; nor yet could he set it at defiance as long as he remained there.

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).) — 76 focus

[76] πρὶν μὲν γὰρ τὴν ἀπόστασιν τὴν Μυτιληναίων¹ γενέσθαι, ἔργῳ τὴν εὔνοιαν ἐδείκνυε τὴν εἰς ὑμᾶς· ἐπειδὴ δὲ ἡ πόλις ὅλη κακῶς ἐβουλεύσατο ἀποστᾶσα καὶ ἥμαρτε τῆς ὑμετέρας γνώμης,² μετὰ τῆς πόλεως ὅλης ἠναγκάσθη συνεξαμαρτεῖν. τὴν μὲν οὖν γνώμην ἔτι καὶ ἐν ἐκείνοις ὅμοιος ἦν εἰς ὑμᾶς, τὴν δʼ εὔνοιαν οὐκέτι ἦν ἐπʼ ἐκείνῳ τὴν αὐτὴν εἰς ὑμᾶς παρέχειν. οὔτε γὰρ ἐκλιπεῖν τὴν πόλιν εὐρόπως³ εἶχεν αὐτῷ· ἱκανὰ γὰρ ἦν τὰ ἐνέχυρα ἃ εἴχετο αὐτοῦ, οἵ τε παῖδες καὶ τὰ χρήματα· τοῦτο δʼ αὖ μένοντι πρὸς τὴν πόλιν αὐτῷ ἀδυνάτως εἶχεν ἰσχυρίζεσθαι.

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On the murder of Herodes

1. Mytilene had revolted from Athens some ten years previously, in 428.

2. Although the τῆς ὑμετέρας γνώμης of the Mss., if retained and taken with ἥμαρτε, would give the sense failed in what you expected of them, an expression for which there are parallels, συνεξαμαρτεῖν REQUIRES ἥμαρτε alone to balance it, and the repetition of γνώμη lines later is harsh in the extreme.

Antiphon On the murder of Herodes 76

ed. Kenneth John Maidment

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