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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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    Prosecution Of The Stepmother For Poisoning

    Not only am I still too young to know anything of courts of law, gentlemen; but I am also faced with a terrible dilemma. On the one hand, how can I disregard my father's solemn injunction to bring his murderers to justice? On the other hand, if I obey it, I shall inevitably find myself ranged against the last persons with whom I should quarrel, my half-brothers and their mother. [2] Circumstances for which the defence have only themselves to blame have made it necessary that my charge should be directed against them, and them alone. One would have expected them to seek vengeance for the dead and support the prosecution; but as it is, the opposite is the case; they are themselves my opponents and the murderers, as both I and my indictment1 state.

    1 i.e., the charge as formally registered with the basileus (cf. Antiph. 6.38, 41 ff.). The action itself was of course a dikê phonou

    There are a total of 2 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Cross references from Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek:
    4, 61 [Periphrases with gignomai.]: timôrous genesthai
    7, 7, 141 [Periphrases with gignomai.]

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