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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)

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. K. J. Maidment) | English (ed. K. J. Maidment)
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    On the Murder of Herodes

    I could have wished, gentlemen, that my powers of speech and my experience of the world1 were as great as the misfortune and the severities with which I have been visited. Instead, I know more of the last two than I should, and am more wanting in the first than is good for me. [2] When I had to submit to the bodily suffering which this unwarranted charge brought with it, experience afforded me no help; while now that my life depends upon my giving a truthful account of the facts, my case is being prejudiced by my inability to speak.

    1 tôn pragmatôn refers especially to the workings of the law, and is picked up by hou men gar me edei . . . empeiria. The speaker means that had he been less ignorant in such matters, he might have effectively protested against the employment of endeixis and apagôgê which involved the close confinement of the defendant before his trial, instead of the more regular dikê phonou before the Areopagus. See Introduction.

    There are a total of 11 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Further comments from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Selections from the Attic Orators:
    section 1 (general note)
    section 1: eboulomên
    section 1: tou men...tou de] tou men
    section 2: hou men gar
    section 2: entauthoi

    Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus:
    1348: eboulomên

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    391 [a. Die Indikativform.]
    426 [Der Dativ als Vertreter des Lokativs.]

    Cross references from J.F. Dobson, The Greek Orators:
    2, 5 [Sound]: tou men pepeiramai pera tou prosêkontos, tou d' endeês eimi mallon tou sumpherontos
    2, 6 [Treatment of subjects]
    2, 6 [Treatment of subjects]
    2, 5 [Sound]: hou men gar m' edei kakorathein tôi sômati meta tês aitias tês ou prosêkousês, entauthoi ouden m' ôphelêsen hê empeiria, hou de me dei sôthênai meta tês alêtheias eiponta ta genomena, en toutôi me blaptei hê tou legein adunamia

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