Dinarchus, Against Aristogiton, ed. J. O. Burtt, 17

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[17] ἔπειτʼ ἐν τοῖς νόμοις δώρων γραφὰς ποιήσαντες, καὶ κατὰ μόνου τούτου τῶν ἀδικημάτων δεκαπλασίαν ἐπιθέντες¹ τοῦ τιμήματος τὴν ἔκτισιν, ἡγούμενοι τὸν τιμὴν λαμβάνοντα τῶν ἐν τῷ δήμῳ ῥηθήσεσθαι μελλόντων λόγων, τοῦτον οὐχ ὑπὲρ τῶν τοῦ δήμου βελτίστων ἀλλʼ ὑπὲρ τῶν τοῖς δοῦσι συμφερόντων δημηγορεῖν· Ἀριστογείτονα τοίνυν ἡ βουλὴ ἀποπέφαγκε· πρὸς δὲ τούτοις ἀνακρίνοντες² τοὺς τῶν κοινῶν τι μέλλοντας διοικεῖν, τίς ἐστι³ τὸν ἴδιον τρόπον, εἰ γονέας εὖ ποιεῖ, εἰ τὰς στρατείας ὑπὲρ τῆς πόλεως ἐστράτευται, εἰ ἱερὰ⁴ πατρῷά ἐστιν, εἰ τὰ τέλη τελεῖ·

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

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Κατὰ Ἀριστογείτονος (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 Aristogiton Perseus (Dinarchus. Minor Attic Orators, Vol. 2. Burtt, J. O., translator. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1954 (printing).) — 17 focus

[17] Secondly, they provided in the laws for indictments for bribery, and this is the only offence for which they imposed a payment equal to ten times the assessment of damages,¹in the belief that one who is ready to be paid for the opinions which he is going to express in the Assembly has at heart, when he is speaking, not the interests of the people but the welfare of those who have paid him. Now the council has reported Aristogiton as guilty of this. Moreover, when choosing a man for public office they used to ask what his personal character was, whether he treated his parents well, whether he had served the city in the field, whether he had an ancestral cult or paid taxes.

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Against Aristogiton

1. ἐπιθέντες Fuhr: ἐπιτιθέντες codd.

2. ἀνακρίνοντες (coll. ποιούμενοι 16) Blass: ἀνακρίναντες codd.

3. ἐστι Reiske: ἔσται codd.

4. ἱερὰ] ἠρία Valesius.

Dinarchus Against Aristogiton 17

ed. J. O. Burtt

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