Hyperides, Against Athenogenes, ed. J. O. Burtt, 3

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[3] ἴσως μὲν οὖν, ὦ ἄνδρες δι καςταί, οὐδὲν ὑπερθαύμαστόν¹ με ὑπὸ Ἀν τιγόνας τὸν τρόπον τουτονὶ παιδαγω γηθῆναι, γυναικὸς ἣ δεινοτάτη μὲν τῶν ἑταιρῶν, ὥς φασιν, ἐφʼ ἡλ ικίας ἐγένε το, διατετέλεκε² δὲ πορνοβοσκοῦσα εν οἶκον τοῦ Χολλίδου οὐ δενὸς ἐλάττω³ ὄντα ἀνῄρηκεν. καίτοι ὅπου καθʼ⁴ ἑαυτὴν οὖσα τοιαῦτα διεπράτ τετο, τί οἴεςθʼ⁵ αὐτὴν νῦν ἐν νοεῖν,⁶ προς λαβοῦσαν⁷ συναγωνιστὴν Ἀθηνογένην, ⁸ ἄνθρωπον λογογράφον τε καὶ ἀγοραῖον, τὸ δὲ μέγιστον, Αἰγύπτιον;

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).) — 3 focus

[3] Perhaps there is nothing very surprising, gentlemen of the jury, in my having been taken in like this by Antigone, a woman who was, I am told, the most gifted courtesan of her time and who has continued to practise as a procuress has ruined the house of of the deme Chollidae which was equal to any. And yet if that was how she behaved on her own, what do you think her plans are now when she has taken Athenogenes into partnership, who is a speechwriter, a man of affairs and, most significant of all, an Egyptian?

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Against Athenogenes

1. ὑπερθαύμαστόν ci. Kenyon, qui tamen οὕτω θαυμαστόν habet: tantum θαυμαστόν Jensen.

2. διατετέλεκε Weil.

3. οὐδενὸς ἐλάττω Jensen: οὐ φαῦλον οὕτω Blass.

4. ὅπου καθʼin add. Jensen: ἥτις καθʼBlass: εἰ καθʼWeil.

5. τί οἴεσθʼ Kenyon.

6. ἐννοεῖν Jensen: ἐπιτελεῖν Weil.

7. προσλαβοῦσανKenyon.

8. Column 2

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