Hyperides, In Defence of Lycophron, ed. J. O. Burtt, 12

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[12] And you accuse me in the impeachment of undermining the democracy by breaking the laws; but you override every law yourself, by presenting an impeachment in a case where the laws require a public charge before the Thesmothetae.¹ Your object was to run no risk in bringing in the action and also to have the opportunity of writing tragic phrases² in the impeachment, such as you have written now, protesting that I am making many women grow old unmarried in their homes and many live illegally with men unsuited for them.

In Defence of Lycophron. Hyperides. ed. J. O. Burtt. London. 1954.

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Ἀπολογία ὑπὲρ Λυκόφρονος Perseus (Hyperides. Minor Attic Orators, Vol. 2. Burtt, J. O., editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1954 (printing).) — 12 focus

[12] καὶ ἐμὲ μὲν αἰτιᾷ ἐν τῇ εἰσαγγελίᾳ καταλύειν τὸν δῆμον παραβαίν οντα τοὺς νόμους, αὐ τὸς δʼ ὑπερπηδής ας ἅπαντας¹ τοὺς ν όμους² εἰσαγγελία ν δέδωκας ὑπὲρ ὧν γραφαὶ πρὸς τοὺς θες μοθέτας ἐκ τῶν νό μων εἰσίν, ἵνα π ρῶτον μὲν ἀκίνδ υνος εἰςίῃς εἰς τὸ ν ἀγῶνα, ἔπε ιτα ἐξ ῇ σοι³ τραγῳδίας⁴ γρ άψαι εἰς τὴν⁵ εἰσαγγελ ίαν οἵαςπερ⁶ νῦν γέγρ αφας, ὅς μʼ⁷ αἰτιᾷ ὅτι πολλὰς μὲν⁸ γυνα ῖκας ποιῶ⁹ ἀγάμ ους ἔνδον καταγηρ άσκειν,¹⁰ πολλὰς δὲ ς υνοικεῖν οἷς¹¹¹² οὐ προσήκει παρὰ τοὺς νόμους.

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In Defence of Lycophron

1. A list of offences for which impeachments were appropriate is given in Hyp. 4.8 . The Thesmothetae were concerned mainly with crimes directed against the state, but they also dealt with cases of assault and adultery ( ὕβρις and μοιχεία). See Hyp. 4.6 and Aristot. Ath. Pol. 59 .

2. For this use of the noun τραγῳδία compare Hyp. 4.26 . The verb τραγῳδέω is used with a similar sense by Demosthenes (e.g. Dem. 18. 13 ).

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