Dinarchus, Against Demosthenes, ed. J. O. Burtt, 53

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Deposition

Is it not an anomaly, Athenians, that on that occasion, because one man, Pistias an Areopagite,¹ told lies against the council and myself and said that I was a criminal, falsehood would have prevailed over truth, if through my weakness and isolation at the time the trumped up lies against me had been believed; whereas now, when the fact is admitted by the whole Areopagus that Demosthenes has taken twenty talents of gold against your interests, and is therefore a criminal, and that your popular leader, in whom some men place their hopes,

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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Μαρτυρία

εἶτʼ οὐ δεινόν, ὦ Ἀθηναῖοι, εἰ, ὅτι μὲν εἷς ἀνὴρ ἔφησε Πιστίας Ἀρεοπαγίτης ὢν ἀδικεῖν με, καταψευδόμενος κἀμοῦ¹ καὶ τῆς βουλῆς, ἴσχυσεν ἂν τὸ ψεῦδος τῆς ἀληθείας μᾶλλον, εἰ² διὰ τὴν ἀσθένειαν τὴν τότε καὶ τὴν ἐρημίαν τὴν ἐμὴν ἐπιστεύθησαν αἱ κατʼ ἐμοῦ ψευδεῖς γενόμεναι³ κατασκευαί· ἐπειδὴ δὲ τἀληθὲς παρὰ πάσης τῆς ἐξ Ἀρείου πάγου βουλῆς ὁμολογεῖται, Δημοσθένην εἰληφέναι εἴκοσι τάλαντα χρυσίου καθʼ ὑμῶν καὶ ταῦτα πεποιηκότʼ ἀδικεῖν, καὶ ὁ δημαγωγὸς ὑμῖν, ἐν ᾧ τὰς ἐλπίδας ἔχουσί τινες,

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Against Demosthenes

1. Nothing else is known of Pistias except that Dinarchus composed a speech against him, the title of which appears in the list of his genuine public orations preserved by Dionysius.

Dinarchus Against Demosthenes 53

ed. J. O. Burtt

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