Antiphon, On the Choreutes, ed. Kenneth John Maidment, 17

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[17] αἰτιῶνται δὲ οὗτοι μὲν ἐκ τούτων, ὡς αἴτιος ὃς¹ ἐκέλευσε² πιεῖν τὸν παῖδα τὸ φάρμακον ἢ ἠνάγκασεν ἢ ἔδωκεν· ἐγὼ δὲ ἐξ αὐτῶν τούτων ὧν αἰτιῶνται οὗτοι ἀποφανῶ ὅτι οὐκ ἔνοχός εἰμι· οὔτε γὰρ ἐκέλευσα οὔτʼ ἠνάγκασα οὔτʼ ἔδωκα³· καὶ ἔτι προστίθημι⁴ αὐτοῖς ὅτι οὐ παρεγενόμην πίνοντι. καὶ εἴ φασιν ἀδικεῖν εἴ τις ἐκέλευσεν,⁵ ἐγὼ οὐκ ἀδικῶ· οὐ γὰρ ἐκέλευσα. καὶ εἴ φασιν ἀδικεῖν εἴ τις ἠνάγκασεν, ἐγὼ οὐκ ἀδικῶ· οὐ γὰρ ἠνάγκασα. καὶ εἰ τὸν δόντα τὸ φάρμακόν φασιν αἴτιον εἶναι, ἐγὼ οὐκ αἴτιος· οὐ γὰρ ἔδωκα.

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

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Περὶ τοῦ χορευτοῦ (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 Choreutes Perseus (Antiphon. Minor Attic Orators, Vol. 1. Maidment, Kenneth John, translator. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1941 (printing); 1960 (reprint).) — 17 focus

[17] Further, in making their charge, the prosecution invoke the principle that the responsibility rests with whoever told the boy to drink the poison, forced him to drink it, or gave it to him to drink. By that very principle, however, I will myself prove that I am innocent: for I neither told the boy to drink the poison, nor forced him to drink it, nor gave it to him to drink. I will even go a step further than they and add that I did not witness him drink it. If the prosecution say that it was a criminal act to tell him to drink it, I am no criminal: I did not tell him to drink it. If they say that it was a criminal act to force him to drink it, I am no criminal: I did not force him to drink it. And if they say that the responsibility rests with the person who gave him the poison, I am not responsible: I did not give it to him.

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On the Choreutes

1. αἴτιος ὃς Sauppe: οὗτος codd.

2. ἐκέλευσε Baiter: κελεύσειε codd.

3. οὔτ’ ἠν. οὔτ ἔδ. Dobree: οὔτ’ ἔδ. οὔτ’ ἠν. codd.

4. ἔτι προστίθημι Ald.: ἐπιπροστίθημυι codd.

5. verba ἐκέλευσεν ... ἀδικεῖν εἴ τις om. Ν.

Antiphon On the Choreutes 17

ed. Kenneth John Maidment

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