Dinarchus, Against Philocles, ed. J. O. Burtt, 16

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[16] ὑμεῖς δʼ οἱ τῆς δημοκρατίας καὶ τῶν νόμων φύλακες, οἷς¹ ἡ τύχη καὶ ὁ κλῆρος ὑπὲρ τοῦ² δήμου δικάσοντας ἐπέτρεψεν, φείσεσθε τοῦ τοιαῦτα διαπεπραγμένου, καὶ τὸ πέρας ἔχοντες τῶν ἐν τῇ πόλει ἁπάντων δικαίων ἀτιμώρητον ἀφήσετε τὸν δωροδόκον καὶ πάντων τῶν γεγενημένων κακῶν αἴτιον, ὅς, ὅπερ καὶ μικρῷ πρότερον εἶπον, μόνος τῶν πονηρῶν πάντων τρὶς οὐχ ἅπαξ ἀποπέφανται, καὶ τρὶς ἤδη δικαίως [ἂν]³ ἐζημιωμένος θανάτῳ κατὰ τὸ αὑτοῦ ψήφισμα.

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

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Κατὰ Φιλοκλέους (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 Philocles Perseus (Dinarchus. Minor Attic Orators, Vol. 2. Burtt, J. O., translator. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1954 (printing).) — 16 focus

[16] Will you, the guardians of democracy and law, spare a man who has behaved like this; you to whom the fortune of lot has entrusted the protection¹ of the people by means of the judgement you will give? You are the supreme court of justice in the city. Will you acquit a man guilty of taking bribes and every other crime, who, as I said just now, is unique among criminals in that he has been reported not once merely but three times and might already have been rightly made liable three times to the death penalty by his own decree.

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Against Philocles

1. οἷς Reiske: οὓς codd.: οἷς et δικάσαι infra pro δικάσοντας Sauppe; sed inter φύλακες et ἐπέτρεψεν nonnihil excidisse videtur: post δικάσοντας lacunam indicavit Blass, qui οὓς retinuit: sensum ita supplet Reiske: οἷς ἡ τύχη . . . τὸ ὑπὲρ τοῦ δήμου ἀμύνεσθαι δικάσοντας ἐπέτρεψεν.

2. τοῦ add. A corr. (2)

3. ἂν add. Reiske.

Dinarchus Against Philocles 16

ed. J. O. Burtt

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