Hyperides, Against Athenogenes, ed. J. O. Burtt, 19

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[19] ς οὐκ ᾔδε ι Μίδαν αδ σθέντα αλ ¹ ς εἰς τὰ ἐν ἀγορᾷ, ἀτρέ μα² δʼ ἔχων ἐν τρισὶ³ μησὶν ἅπαντα τὰ χρέα καὶ τ οὺς ἐράνους ἐπυθόμην, οὗτ ος δέ, ὁ ἐκ τριγονίας ὢν μυροπώλης, καθ ήμενος δʼ ἐν τῇ ἀγο ρᾷ ὅσαι ἡμέραι, τρία δὲ μυροπώλια κεκτη μένος, λόγους δὲ κατὰ μῆνα λαμβάνω ν, οὐκ ᾔδει τὰ χρέα. ἀλλʼ ἐν μὲν τοῖς ἄλλοις οὐκ ἰδιώτης ἐστίν, πρὸς δὲ τὸν οἰκέτην οὕτ ως εὐήθης ἐγένετο, καί τινα μὲν τῶν χρ εῶν, ὡς ἔοικεν, ᾔδει, τὰ δέ φησιν οὐκ εἰδέναι, ὅσα μὴ βούλεται.

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).) — 19 focus

[19] the affairs of the market, but by simply waiting I discovered all the debts and loans in three months. Whereas this man had two generations of perfume sellers behind him; he used to sit in the market every day, was the owner of three stalls and had accounts submitted to him monthly and still he did not know his debts. Though an expert in other matters he was a complete simpleton in dealing with his slave, and though he knew, apparently, of some of the debts, he pleads ignorance of others—to suit his convenience.

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Against Athenogenes

1. Column 9

2. Coll. 9, 10, 11 plerumque restituit Blass. ἀτρεκὲς δὴ ἐγὼ Kenyon.

3. ἐν τρισὶ Weil.

Hyperides Against Athenogenes 19

ed. J. O. Burtt

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