Antiphon, On the Choreutes, ed. Kenneth John Maidment, 9

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[9] εἴ τι ἠδίκουν ἐγὼ τὴν πόλιν ἢ ἐν χορηγίᾳ ἢ ἐν ἄλλοις τισίν, ἀποφήνασι καὶ ἐξελέγξασιν ἄνδρα τε ἐχθρὸν τιμωρήσασθαι¹ καὶ τὴν πόλιν ὠφελῆσαι, ἐνταῦθα μὲν οὐδεὶς πώποτε οἷός τε ἐγένετο αὐτῶν οὔτε μικρὸν οὔτε μέγα ἐξελέγξαι² ἀδικοῦντα τόνδε τὸν ἄνδρα τὸ πλῆθος τὸ ὑμέτερον· ἐν δὲ τούτῳ τῷ ἀγῶνι, φόνου διώκοντες καὶ τοῦ νόμου οὕτως ἔχοντος, εἰς αὐτὸ τὸ πρᾶγμα κατηγορεῖν, μηχανῶνται ἐπʼ ἐμοὶ³ λόγους ψευδεῖς συντιθέντες καὶ διαβάλλοντες τὰ εἰς τὴν πόλιν. καὶ τῇ μὲν πόλει, εἴπερ⁴ ἀδικεῖται, κατηγορίαν ἀντὶ τιμωρίας ἀπονέμουσιν, αὐτοὶ δὲ οὗ⁵ τὴν πόλιν φασὶν ἀδικεῖσθαι, τούτου ἰδίᾳ⁶ ἀξιοῦσι δίκην λαμβάνειν.

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).) — 9 focus

[9] when they had the opportunity of avenging themselves on an enemy and doing the state a service by exposing and bringing home to me any public offence of which I had been guilty, as Choregus or otherwise, not one of them was able to prove that I had done your people any wrong, great or small.¹ Yet at today’s trial, when they are prosecuting for prosecution to the charge before the court,² they are seeking to achieve my downfall with a tissue of lies calculated to bring my public life into disrepute. If the state has in fact been wronged, they are compensating it not with redress, but with a mere accusation; while they are themselves demanding that reparation for a wrong which has been suffered by the state should be made to them in person.

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On the Choreutes

1. τιμωρήσασθαι Ald.: τιμωρήσεσθαι codd.

2. ἐξελέγξαι Ν· ἐλέγξαι Α.

3. ἐπ’ ἐμοὶ Blass, coll. 36, 48: ἐπ’ ἐμὲ codd.

4. εἴπερ Blass: εἰ μὲν codd.

5. οὗ Thalheim: ὧ Α, ᾧ Ν.

6. τούτου ἰδίᾳ Bekker: τουτουὶ δὴ A corr. N: τούτου εἰ δεῖ A pr.

Antiphon On the Choreutes 9

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