Hyperides, Against Athenogenes, ed. J. O. Burtt, 16

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[16] σκέψαι δέ, ὦ Ἀθηνόγενες, μὴ μόνον περὶ τῶν οἰκετῶν, ἀλλὰ καὶ περὶ τῶν ἐλευθέρων σωμάτων ὃν τρόπον οἱ νόμοι ἔχουσιν. οἶσθα γὰρ δήπου καὶ σὺ καὶ οἱ¹ ἄλλοι πάντες ὅτι οἱ ἐκ τῶν ἐγγυητῶν γυναικῶν παῖδες οὗτοι γνήσιοί εἰσιν. ἀλ λὰ μὴ ν² οὐκ ἀπέ χρησε τῷ νομοθ έτῃ τὸ ἐγγ υηθῆναι τὴν γυναῖκα ὑπὸ τοῦ πατρὸς ἢ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ, ἀλλʼ ἔγραψε δι αρρήδην ἐν τῷ νόμῳ, ἣν ἂν ἐγγυήσῃ τ ις ἐπὶ δικαίοις δάμαρτα ἐκ ταύτης εἶν αι παῖδας γνησίους,³ καὶ οὐκ⁴ ἐάν τις ψευς άμενος ὡς θυγατέρα ἐγγυήσῃ ἄλ λην τινά. ἀλλὰ τὰς μὲν δικαίας⁵ ἐγγύας κ υρίας, τὰς δὲ μὴ δικαίας ἀκύρους καθίστη σιν.⁶

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

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Κατ᾽ Ἀθηνογένους (Greek) (Hyperides. 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 Athenogenes Perseus (Hyperides. Minor Attic Orators, Vol. 2. Burtt, J. O., translator. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1954 (printing).) — 16 focus

[16] Consider the legal position, Athenogenes, as regards free persons as well as slaves. No doubt you know as everyone does that the children of married women are legitimate. Yet the mere act of betrothing a woman on the part of a father or brother was not enough for the lawmaker. On the contrary, he wrote expressly in the law¹ : whomsoever any man has lawfully betrothed as wife, her children shall be legitimate; not: if any man has betrothed some other woman on the pretence that she is his daughter. He lays it down that just betrothals shall be valid and unjust ones invalid.

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Against Athenogenes

1. οἱ add. Blass.

2. ἀλλὰ μὴνet sq. ad col. 8 finem plerumque restituit Revillout.

3. εἶναι παῖδας γνησίουςWeil.

4. καὶ οὐκ Blass: ἀλλ’ οὐκ Weil.

5. ὡς θυγατέρα usque ad δικαίας Fuhr.

6. κυρίαςusque ad καθίστησινBlass.

Hyperides Against Athenogenes 16

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