Hyperides, In Defence of Euxenippus, ed. J. O. Burtt, 28

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[28] It is not as if I were prescribing one line of conduct for you having followed another in my own public life. I myself never in my life prosecuted any private citizen, and there are some whom before now I have done my best to help. What men, then, have I prosecuted and brought to trial? Aristophon of Hazenia,¹ now a most influential person in public life—he was acquitted in this court by two votes only;

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

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In Defence of Euxenippus (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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Ὑπὲρ Εὐξενίππου ἐισαγγελίας ἀπολογία πρὸς Πολύευκτον Perseus (Hyperides. Minor Attic Orators, Vol. 2. Burtt, J. O., editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1954 (printing).) — 28 focus

[28] καὶ οὐ σὲ μὲν οὕτως οἴομαι δεῖν πράττειν, αὐτὸς δὲ ἄλλον τινὰ τρόπον τῇ πολιτείᾳ κέχρημαι, ἀλλʼ οὐδʼ αὐτὸς ἰδιώτην οὐδένα πώποτε ἐν τῷ βίῳ ἔκρινα, ἤδη δέ τισι καθʼ ὅσον ἐδυνάμην ἐβοήθησα. τίνας οὖν κέκρικα καὶ εἰς ἀγῶνα καθέστακα; Ἀριστοφῶντα τὸν Ἁζηνιέα,¹ ὃς ἰσχυρότατος ἐν τῇ πολιτείᾳ γεγένηται ( ² καὶ οὗτος ἐν τούτῳ τῷ δικαστηρίῳ παρὰ δύο ψήφους ἀπέφυγε)·

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In Defence of Euxenippus

1. Of the three orators here mentioned Aristophon was prosecuted by Hyperides in 362 B.C., Diopithes at an unknown date, and Philocrates in 343. See further, notes on Hyp. Fr. 17 , Hyp. Fr. 15 , and Hyp. Fr. 16 .

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