Dinarchus, Against Aristogiton, ed. J. O. Burtt, 2

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[2] τούτῳ μέν γε καινὸν οὐδὲν οὐδὲ δεινόν, ἐὰν ἁλῶ, συμβήσεται· καὶ γὰρ θανάτου ἄξια πολλὰ πρότερον ἕτερα διαπέπρακται, καὶ ἐν τῷ δεσμωτηρίῳ πλείω χρόνον ἢ ἔξω διατέτριφε, καὶ ὀφείλων τῷ δημοσίῳ κατὰ τῶν ἐπιτίμων γέγραφεν οὐκ ἐξὸν αὐτῷ, καὶ ἕτερα πολλὰ καὶ δεινὰ πεποίηκε, περὶ ὧν ὑμεῖς ἀκριβέστερον¹ ἐμοῦ γιγνώσκετε· τῇ δὲ βουλῇ τὸ δόξαι ψευδῆ² κατʼ Ἀριστογείτονος ἀποφαίνειν καὶ τοῦτον ἐκείνης παρʼ ὑμῖν ὑποληφθῆναι δικαιότερα λέγειν τῶν αἰσχίστων καὶ δεινοτάτων ἐστίν.

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).) — 2 focus

[2] It will be no new or alarming experience for the defendant if he is convicted, for he has committed in the past many other crimes meriting the death penalty and has spent more time in prison than out of it. While he has been in debt to the state he has prosecuted men with citizen rights, though not entitled to do so, and has committed numerous other offences of which you have a more exact knowledge than I. It is a most shameful and monstrous thing for this council to be suspected of making a false report against Aristogiton and for him to be considered among you as having more justice on his side than it has.

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Against Aristogiton

1. ὑμεῖς ἀκριβέστερον Ν: ἀκριβέστερον ὑμεῖς Α.

2. ψευδῆ A corr. ras.: τὰ ψευδῆ, ut vid., A pr.: καὶ ψευδῆ Ν.

Dinarchus Against Aristogiton 2

ed. J. O. Burtt

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