Hyperides, Against Athenogenes, ed. J. O. Burtt, 12

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[12] On thinking it over we decided to go to Athenogenes and broach the matter. We found him near the perfume stalls and asked him whether he was not ashamed of being a liar and trapping us with the agreement by not declaring the debts beforehand. He replied that he did not know what debts we meant and that we made no impression on him; he had in safe-keeping a document relating to me which covered the transaction. A crowd gathered and overheard the incident, as our altercation took place in the market. Although they gave him a slating and told us to arrest him summarily as a kidnapper,¹ we thought it best not to do so. Instead we summoned him before you, as the law permits. First of all then, the clerk shall read you the agreement; for you shall have the actual text of the document as evidence of the plot, for which Athenogenes and no other is to blame. Read the agreement.

Against Athenogenes. Hyperides. ed. J. O. Burtt. London. 1954.

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

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Κατ᾽ Ἀθηνογένους 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] βουλευομένοις δʼ ἡμῖν ἔδοξεν πορεύεσθαι πρὸς τοῦτον καὶ διαλέγεσθαι. καὶ καταλαβόντες αὐτὸν πρὸς τοῖς μυροπωλίοις ἠρωτῶμεν εἰ οὐκ αἰσχύνοιτο ψευδόμενος κα ὶ ἐνεδρεύσας ἡμᾶς ταῖς συνθήκαις, οὐ προειπὼν τὰ χρέα. ὁ δʼ ἀπεκρίνατο ἡμῖν ὡς οὔτε τὰ χρέα γιγνώσκοι ἃ λέγομεν, οὔτε προσέχοι ἡμ ῖν τὸν νοῦν, γραμματεῖόν τʼ εἴη αὐτῷ κείμενον πρὸς ἐμὲ περὶ τούτων. πολλῶν δʼ ἀνθρώπων ς υλλεγομένων καὶ ἐπακουόντων τοῦ πράγματος, διὰ τὸ ἐν τῇ ἀγορᾷ τοὺς λόγους γίγνεσθαι, καὶ κατατεμνόντων αὐτόν, κελευόντων τε ἀπάγειν¹ ὡς ἀνδραποδιστή ν, τοῦτο μὲν οὐκ ᾠόμεθα² δεῖν ποιεῖν, πρ οσεκαλεσάμεθα δὲ αὐτὸν εἰς ὑμᾶς κατὰ τὸν νόμον. πρῶτον μὲν οὖν ὑμῖν τὰς ς υνθήκας ἀναγνώσεται· ἐ ξ αὐτῶν³ γὰρ τ ῶν⁴ γεγρα μμένων μαθήσεσθε τὴν ἐπιβουλὴν αὐτοῦ τούτου. λέγε τὰς συνθήκας.

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Against Athenogenes

1. Summary arrest ( ἀπαγωγή) by which the injured party seized the criminal and took him before the magistrate, could be used against various types of offender, e.g., thieves and kidnappers. Athenogenes was not actually a kidnapper, but he was driving a man to debt, which, though it did not lead to enslavement, might result in total ἀτιμία.

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