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

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[17] τί οὖν ἀναμενεῖτʼ, ὦ Ἀθηναῖοι; καὶ ποῖα ἀδικήματα ζητεῖτε ἕτερα μείζω τῶν εἰρημένων ἀκοῦσαι; οὐχ ὑμεῖς ἐστε καὶ οἱ ὑμέτεροι πρόγονοι οἱ Τιμοθέῳ¹ Πελοπόννησον περιπλεύσαντι καὶ τὴν ἐν Κερκύρᾳ ναυμαχίαν Λακεδαιμονίους νικήσαντι καὶ Κόνωνος υἱεῖ τοῦ² τοὺς Ἕλληνας ἐλευθερώσαντος³ καὶ Σάμον λαβόντι⁴ καὶ Μεθώνην καὶ Πύδναν καὶ Ποτείδαιαν, καὶ πρὸς ταύταις ἑτέρας εἴκοσι πόλεις, οὐδὲν τούτων ὑπόλογον ποιησάμενοι; οὐδὲ τῆς τότε ἐνεστώσης κρίσεως καὶ τῶν ὅρκων οὓς ὀμωμοκότες φέρετε τὴν ψῆφον ἀντικαταλλαξάμενοι τὰς τηλικαύτας εὐεργεσίας, ἀλλʼ ἑκατὸν ταλάντων τιμήσαντες, ὅτι χρήματʼ αὐτὸν Ἀριστοφῶν ἔφη παρὰ Χίων εἰληφέναι καὶ Ῥοδίων; τὸν δὲ μιαρὸν ἄνθρωπον καὶ προδότην,

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).) — 17 focus

[17] Then why will you wait, Athenians? What further crimes do you wish to hear of greater than those we have mentioned? Was it not you and your ancestors who made no allowance for Timotheus,¹ though he had sailed round the Peloponnese and beaten the Spartans in the sea-fight at Corcyra , though his father was Conon who liberated Greece and he himself had taken Samos , Methone , Pydna , Potidaea, and twenty cities besides? You did not take this record into consideration at all, or allow such services to outweigh the case before you or the oaths which you swear before giving your verdict, but fined him a hundred talents, because Aristophon said he had been bribed by the Chians and Rhodians.

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Against Philocles

1. Cf. διν. 1.14 .

2. τοῦ add. A corr. (2)

3. ἐλευθερώσαντος A corr. (2): ἐλευθερώσαντι A pr. N.

4. λαβόντι N A pr.: λαβόντος A corr. (2)

Dinarchus Against Philocles 17

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