Antiphon, On the murder of Herodes, ed. Kenneth John Maidment, 16

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[16] ἔπειτα δὲ οὐχ ὡς πιστεύων τῷ πράγματι ἀναμφισβητήτως ἕνα τὸν ἀγῶνα περὶ τοῦ πράγματος ἐποιήσω, ἀλλὰ ἀμφισβήτησιν καὶ λόγον ὑπελίπου ὡς καὶ τοῖσδε τοῖς δικασταῖς ἀπιστήσων. ὥστε μηδέν μοι ἐνθάδε μηδὲ¹ πλέον εἶναι μηδʼ ἀποφυγόντι, ἀλλʼ ἐξεῖναί σοι λέγειν ὅτι κακοῦργος ἀπέφυγον, ἀλλʼ οὐ τοῦ φόνου τὴν δίκην· ἑλὼν δʼ αὖ ἀξιώσεις² με ἀποκτεῖναι ὡς τοῦ φόνου τὴν δίκην ὠφληκότα. καίτοι πῶς ἂν εἴη τούτων δεινότερα μηχανήματα, εἰ ὑμῖν μὲν ἅπαξ τουτουσὶ πείσασι κατείργασται ἃ βούλεσθε, ἐμοὶ δʼ ἅπαξ ἀποφυγόντι; ὁ αὐτὸς κίνδυνος ὑπολείπεται;

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

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Περὶ τοῦ Ἡρῷδου φόνου (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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On the Murder of Herodes Perseus (Antiphon. Minor Attic Orators, Vol. 1. Maidment, Kenneth John, translator. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1941 (printing); 1960 (reprint).) — 16 focus

[16] Furthermore, instead of acting like a man confident of his case and arranging that it should be tried once and indisputably, you have left yourself grounds for dispute and argument, as though you proposed to show your distrust of even the present court. The result is that even if I am acquitted today, I am no better off; you can say that it was as a malefactor that I was acquitted, not on a charge of murder. On the other hand, if you win your case, you will claim my life, on the ground that it is on a charge of murder that I have been tried and found guilty. Could any thing more unfair be devised? You and your associates have only to convince this court once, and your object is gained; whereas I, if I am acquitted once, am left in the same peril as before.

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On the murder of Herodes

1. μηδὲ del. Reiske.

2. αὖ ἀξιώσεις Bekker: ἂν ἀξιώσεις A corr. 2: ἂν ἀξιώσῃς

Antiphon On the murder of Herodes 16

ed. Kenneth John Maidment

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