Antiphon, On the Choreutes, ed. Kenneth John Maidment, 44

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[44] Moreover, after the present Basileus had come into office, there were thirty clear days from the first of Hecatombaeon onwards,¹ on any of which they could have registered their charge, had they wanted to; yet they did not do so. Similarly, they could have registered it any day they liked from the first of Metageitnion onwards. But even then they did not do so: they let twenty days of this second month by as well. Thus the total number of days in the present archonship on which they could have registered their charge, but failed to do so, was over fifty.²

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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[44] ἐπειδὴ δὲ¹ οὑτοσὶ ὁ βασιλεὺς εἰσῆλθεν, ἐξὸν ἀυτοῖς ἀπὸ τῆς πρώτης ἡμέρας² ἀρξαμένοις τοῦ Ἑκατομβαιῶνος μηνὸς τριάκονθʼ ἡμέρας συνεχῶς τούτων ᾗτινι ἐβούλοντο ἀπογράφεσθαι, ἀπεγράφοντο οὐδεμιᾷ· καὶ αὖθις τοῦ Μεταγειτνιῶνος μηνὸς ἀπὸ τῆς πρώτης ἡμέρας ἀρξαμένοις ἐξὸν αὐτοῖς ἀπογράφεσθαι ᾗτινι³ ἐβούλοντο, οὐδʼ αὖ πω⁴ ἐνταῦθα ἀπεγράψαντο, ἀλλὰ παρεῖσαν⁵ καὶ τούτου τοῦ μηνὸς εἴκοσιν ἡμέρας·⁶ ὥστε αἱ σύμπασαι ἡμέραι ἐγένοντο αὐτοῖς πλεῖν ἢ πεντήκοντα ἐπὶ τούτου τοῦ βασιλέως, ἐν αἷς ἐξὸν αὐτοῖς ἀπογράψασθαι οὐκ ἀπεγράψαντο.

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On the Choreutes

1. Hecatombaeon was the first month of the official Attic year; it extended from 22nd June to 21st July. Metageitnion followed it.

2. The words over fifty look like a rhetorical exaggeration. For the bearing of this and the following section on the date of the speech, see Introduction.

Antiphon On the Choreutes 44

ed. Kenneth John Maidment

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