Dinarchus, Against Demosthenes, ed. J. O. Burtt, 43

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[43] Really, gentlemen, tell me: do you think he got nothing for proposing that Diphilus¹ should have meals at the Prytaneum or for that statue to be put up in the market? Nothing for conferring Athenian citizenship on Chaerephilus, Phidon, Pamphilus, and Phidippus, or again on Epigenes and Conon the bankers? Nothing for putting up in the market bronze statues of Berisades, Satyrus and Gorgippus the tyrants from the Pontus , from whom he receives a thousand medimni of wheat a year—this man who will presently tell you that there is nowhere for him to take refuge.

Against Demosthenes. Dinarchus. ed. J. O. Burtt. London. 1954.

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[43] εἴπατέ μοι πρὸς Διός, ὦ ἄνδρες, προῖκα τοῦτον οἴεσθε γράψαι Διφίλῳ τὴν ἐν πρυτανείῳ σίτησιν, καὶ τὴν εἰς τὴν ἀγορὰν ἀνατεθησομένην¹ εἰκόνα; ἢ τὸ ποιῆσαι πολίτας ὑμετέρους² Χαιρέφιλον καὶ Φείδωνα καὶ Πάμφιλον καὶ Φείδιππον,³ ἢ πάλιν Ἐπιγένην καὶ Κόνωνα τοὺς τραπεζίτας; ἢ τὸ χαλκοῦς ἐν ἀγορᾷ στῆσαι Βηρισάδην⁴ καὶ Σάτυρον καὶ Γόργιππον τοὺς ἐκ τοῦ Πόντου⁵ τυράννους, παρʼ ὧν αὐτῷ χίλιοι μέδιμνοι⁶ τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ πυρῶν ἀποστέλλονται τῷ οὐδʼ ὅποι⁷ καταφύγῃ αὐτίκα φήσοντι εἶναι;

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Against Demosthenes

1. Little is known of the various men mentioned in this section. Diphilus was perhaps the son of Diopithes, trierarch in 325/4 and 323/2 B.C. (CIA 2.809 d, 53 and 811 b, 104). For Chaerephilus, a dealer in salt fish, compare Hyp. frag. 34 and Hyp. frag. 35 . The three names following his are those of his sons. All four were evidently put in the deme of Paeania, Pamphilus and Phidippus being mentioned as members of it in inscriptions (CIA 2.172 and CIA 2.811 d, 142). Cf. also Athen. 3.119 sq. and Athen. 8.339 d . Berisades is probably the same man as Paerisades, a king of Bosporus to whom Demosthenes refers ( Dem. 34.8 ); Satyrus was his son.

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