Antiphon, On the Choreutes, ed. Kenneth John Maidment, 15

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[15] In the first place, then, I will prove to you that I did not tell the boy to drink the poison, compel him to drink it, give it to him to drink, or even witness him drinking it. And I am not insisting on these facts in order to incriminate someone else once I have cleared myself; no indeed—unless that someone else be Fortune; and this is not the first time, I imagine, that she has caused a man’s death. Fortune neither I nor any other could prevent from fulfilling her destined part in the life of each of us. . . .¹

On the Choreutes. Antiphon. ed. Kenneth John Maidment. London. 1941.

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On the Choreutes (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 χορευτοῦ Perseus (Antiphon. Minor Attic Orators, Vol. 1. Maidment, Kenneth John, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1941 (printing); 1960 (reprint).) — 15 focus

[15] πρῶτον μὲν οὖν ἀποδείξω ὑμῖν ὅτι οὔτʼ ἐκέλευσα πιεῖν τὸν παῖδα τὸ φάρμακον οὔτʼ ἠνάγκασα οὔτʼ ἔδωκα καὶ οὐδὲ¹ παρῆ ὅτʼ ἔπιεν. καὶ οὐ τούτου ἕνεκα ταῦτα σφόδρα λέγω, ὡς ἐμαυτὸν ἔξω αἰτίας καταστήσω, ἕτερον δέ τινα εἰς αἰτίαν ἀγάγω· οὐ δῆτα ἔγωγε, πλήν γε τῆς τύχης, ἥπερ οἶμαι καὶ ἄλλοις πολλοῖς ἀνθρώπων αἰτία ἐστὶν ἀποθανεῖν· ἣν οὔτʼ ἂν ἐγὼ οὔτʼ ἄλλος οὐδεὶς οἷός τʼ ἂν εἴη ἀποτρέψαι² μὴ οὐ γενέσθαι ἥντινα δεῖ ἑκάστῳ....³

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On the Choreutes

1. Some such phrase as καὶ μοι μάρτυρας τούτων κάλει seems to have been lost. Cf. Antiph. 5.61 .

Antiphon On the Choreutes 15

ed. Kenneth John Maidment

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