Hyperides, In Defence of Euxenippus, ed. J. O. Burtt, 34

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[34] Let me give an instance. When Tisis of Agryle brought in an inventory of the estate of Euthycrates, amounting to more than sixty talents, on the grounds of its being public property, and again later promised to bring in an inventory of the estate of Philip and Nausicles saying that they had made their money from unregistered mines, this jury were so far from approving such a suggestion or coveting the property of others that they immediately disfranchised the man who tried to slander the accused and did not award him a fifth part of the votes.¹

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

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[34] καὶ πρῶτον μὲν Τείσιδος τοῦ Ἀγρυλῆθεν ἀπογράψαντος τὴν Εὐθυκράτους οὐσίαν ὡς δημοσίαν οὖσαν, ἣ πλεόνων ἢ ἑξήκοντα ταλάντων ἦν, καὶ μετʼ ἐκείνην πάλιν ὑπισχνουμένου τὴν Θιλίππ ου καὶ Ναυσικλέους ἀ πογράψειν, καὶ λέγο ντος ὡς ἐξ ἀναπογρ άφων μετάλλων π επλουτήκασι, τοσο ῦτον¹ οὗτοι ἀπέλιπον τοῦ προσέσθαι² τινὰ τ οιοῦτον³ λόγον ⁴ ἢ τῶν ἀλλοτρίων ἐπιθυμεῖν, ὥστε τὸν ἐγχειρήσαντα συκοφαντεῖν αὐτοὺς εὐθὺς ἠτίμωσαν, τὸ πέμπτον μέρος τῶν ψήφων οὐ μεταδόντες.

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In Defence of Euxenippus

1. No other details are known of the cases mentioned here. An Epicrates of Pallene is known to have been trierarch in 342 B.C. (IG. 2.803 e), and may be the man referred to in connection with the second of the two trials.

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