Dinarchus, Against Philocles, ed. J. O. Burtt, 18

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

← Previous Next →

[18] Will you then acquit¹ this abominable man, reported not by one individual but by the whole council of the Areopagus, after an investigation, to be holding bribes against you; who, though he has ample means and no male heirs and lacks nothing else that a normal man could need, did not withhold his hand from the bribes offered against his country or suppress his natural depravity, but destroyed entirely his reputation for loyalty towards you, by ranging himself with those whom he once professed to oppose and proving that his counterfeited honesty was sham?

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

Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.

Funding provided by The Annenberg CPB/Project.

Current edition Perseus

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

Editions (1)

Κατὰ Φιλοκλέους Perseus (Dinarchus. Minor Attic Orators, Vol. 2. Burtt, J. O., editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1954 (printing).) — 18 focus

[18] ὃν οὐχ εἷς ἀνὴρ ἀλλὰ πᾶσα ἡ ἐξ Ἀρείου πάγου βουλὴ ζητήσασα ἀποπέφαγκε χρήματʼ ἔχειν καθʼ ὑμῶν, ὃς οὐσίαν ἔχων πολλὴν καὶ παίδων ἀρρένων οὐκ ὄντων αὐτῷ, καὶ οὐδενὸς ἄλλου δεόμενος ὧν ἂν¹ ἄνθρωπος μέτριος δεηθείη, οὐκ ἀπέσχετο χρημάτων διδομένων κατὰ τῆς πατρίδος, οὐδʼ ἀπεκρύψατο τὴν ἔμφυτον πονηρίαν, ἀλλʼ ἀνεῖλε πᾶσαν τὴν γεγενημένην αὑτῷ πρὸς ὑμᾶς πίστιν, καὶ οἷς πρότερον ἔφη διαφέρεσθαι, πρὸς τούτους ἔταξεν αὑτόν, καὶ ἐξήλεγξεν αὑτοῦ τὴν προσποίητον καλοκαγαθίαν, ὅτι ψευδὴς ἦν.²

Notes on the current edition

Against Philocles

1. An apodosis conveying some such meaning as this, which is needed to complete the sense of the sentence, seems to have dropped out of the Greek text.

Dinarchus Against Philocles 18

ed. J. O. Burtt

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

Current edition Perseus

Notes on the current edition

Stable identifiers