Dinarchus, Against Demosthenes, ed. J. O. Burtt, 47

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[47] having broken the oaths he took on the Areopagus, in the names of the holy goddesses and the other deities by whom it is customary to swear there, and making himself accursed at every sitting of the Assembly. He has been proved to have taken bribes against Athens , has cheated the people and the council in defiance of the curse, professing views he does not hold, and in private has recommended to Aristarchus a course both cruel and unlawful.¹ For these misdeeds, if there is any power to exact a just punishment from perjurers and criminals—as there surely is—this man shall pay today. Gentlemen of the jury, listen to the curse.²

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

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Against Demosthenes (English) (Dinarchus. Minor Attic Orators, Vol. 2. Burtt, J. O., translator. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1954 (printing).)

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[47] ἐπιωρκηκὼς μὲν τὰς σεμνὰς θεὰς ἐν Ἀρείῳ πάγῳ καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους θεοὺς οὓς ἐκεῖ διόμνυσθαι νόμιμόν ἐστι, κατάρατος δὲ καθʼ ἑκάστην ἐκκλησίαν γιγνόμενος,¹ ἐξεληλεγμένος δῶρα κατὰ τῆς πόλεως εἰληφώς, ἐξηπατηκὼς δὲ καὶ τὸν δῆμον καὶ τὴν βουλὴν παρὰ τὴν ἀράν, καὶ ἕτερα μὲν λέγων ἕτερα δὲ φρονῶν, ἰδίᾳ δὲ συμβεβουλευκὼς Ἀριστάρχῳ δεινὰς καὶ παρανόμους συμβουλάς, ἀνθʼ ὧν — εἴπερ ἐστί που δικαία τιμωρία κατὰ τῶν ἐπιόρκων καὶ πονηρῶν, ὥσπερ ἔστι — δώσει δίκην οὗτος ἐν τῇ τήμερον ἡμέρᾳ. ἀκούσατʼ, ἄνδρες δικασταί, τῆς ἀρᾶς.

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Against Demosthenes

1. Cf. Din. 1.30 and note.

2. For the curse pronounced by the herald before each sitting of the Council and Assembly on all who might be acting treasonably against the state compare Lyc. 1.31 .

Dinarchus Against Demosthenes 47

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