Dinarchus, Against Demosthenes, ed. J. O. Burtt, 103

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[103] ὑμεῖς δʼ ἐν τοῖς ἔξω τὰς ἐλπίδας ἔχετε, ἁμιλλώμενοι ταῖς κολακείαις πρὸς τοὺς ὁμολογοῦντας ὑπὲρ Ἀλεξάνδρου πράττειν καὶ δῶρʼ εἰληφέναι παρὰ τῶν αὐτῶν ὧνπερ νῦν ἀποπέφαγκεν ὑμᾶς ἡ βουλή, καὶ σύ, πάντων ἐναντίον τῶν Ἑλλήνων¹ διειλεγμένος Νικάνορι καὶ κεχρηματικὼς [ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ]² περὶ ὧν ἐβουλήθης, ἐλεεινὸν νῦν σεαυτὸν κατασκευάζεις προδότης ὢν καὶ δωροδόκος, ὡς ἐπιλησομένους³ τούτους τῆς σῆς πονηρίας, καὶ οὐ δώσων δίκην ὑπὲρ ὧν εἴληψαι πεποιηκώς,

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

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Κατὰ Δημοσθένους (Greek) (Dinarchus. Minor Attic Orators, Vol. 2. Burtt, J. O., editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1954 (printing).)

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Against Demosthenes Perseus (Dinarchus. Minor Attic Orators, Vol. 2. Burtt, J. O., translator. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1954 (printing).) — 103 focus

[103] But you place your hopes abroad and compete in flattery with those who admit that they are serving Alexander and have taken bribes from the same sources as those from which you are reported by the council to have received them. And you, Demosthenes, after conversing with Nicanor in front of all the Greeks and settling everything you wanted, now make yourself out to be in need of pity, traitor though you are and a receiver of bribes; as if these men will forget your wickedness, as if you will not pay the penalty for the crimes at which you have been caught. You are acting more boldly than Demades to this extent,

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Against Demosthenes

1. ἐναντίον τῶν Ἑλλήνων Maetzner: ἐναντίων τῶν Ἑλλήνων Ν: τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἐναντίον Α.

2. ἐν Ὀλυμπία del. Kleyn.

3. ἐπιλησομένους Stephanus: ἐπιμελησομένους codd.

Dinarchus Against Demosthenes 103

ed. J. O. Burtt

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