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Contents: Speech 1: On the MysteriesSpeech 2: On His ReturnSpeech 3: On the Peace with SpartaSpeech 4: Against Alcibiades |
Andocides, Speeches
On the Mysteries
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The systematic and untiring efforts of my enemies, gentlemen, to do me every possible injury, by fair means or by foul, from the very moment of my arrival in this city,1 are known to almost all of you, and it is unnecessary for me to pursue the subject. Instead, I shall make a request of you, gentlemen, a fair request, which it is as easy for you to grant as it is valuable for me to gain.2
1 Four years earlier, in 403. 2 Much of 1, 6, 7 and 9 consists of loci communes which recur in Lysias and Isocrates. Both they and Andocides were making use of the same handbook of proems.
There are a total of 3 comments on and cross references to this page.
Cross references from Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek:
43, 611 [Second Position:]
651 [pas with anarthrous substantives. ]
Cross references from J.F. Dobson, The Greek Orators:
3, 3 [His style]
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This text is based on the following book(s): Andocides. Minor Attic Orators in two volumes 1, Antiphon Andocides, with an English translation by K. J. Maidment, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1968. OCLC: 1241542 ISBN: 0674993403
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