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  • Speech 1: Prosecution Of The Stepmother For Poisoning
  • Speech 2: Anonymous Prosecution for Murder
  • Speech 3: The Second Tetralogy: Prosecution for Accidental Homicide
  • Speech 4: The Third Tetralogy: Prosecution for Murder Of One Who Pleads Self-Defense
  • Speech 5: On the Murder of Herodes
  • Speech 6: On the Choreutes
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    Antiphon, Speeches (ed. K. J. Maidment)

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    The Second Tetralogy: Prosecution for Accidental Homicide

    First speech for the Prosecution

    Cases in which the facts are agreed upon are settled in advance either by the law or by the statutes of the Assembly, which between them control every branch of civic life. But should matter for dispute occur, it is your task, gentlemen, to give a decision. However, I do not imagine that any dispute will in fact arise between the defendant and myself. My son was struck in the side by a javelin thrown by yonder lad in the gymnasium, and died instantly. [2] I accuse him not of killing my son deliberately, but of killing him by accident--though the loss which I have suffered is not thereby lessened. But if he has not caused the dead boy himself disquiet, he has caused disquiet to the living1 ; and I ask you to pity that dead boy's childless parents: to show your sorrow for his own untimely end: to forbid his slayer to set foot where he is forbidden to set foot by the law2 : and to refuse to allow him to defile the whole city.

    1 For enthumios see General Introduction.

    2 See Antiph. 6.34 ff., On the Choreutes, for the meaning of eirgesthai tôn nomimôn.

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