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  • Speech 51: On The Trierarchic Crown
  • Speech 52: Apollodorus Against Callipus
  • Speech 53: Apollodorus Against Nicostratus
  • Speech 54: Against Conon
  • Speech 55: Against Callicles
  • Speech 56: Against Dionysodorus
  • Speech 57: Against Eubulides
  • Speech 58: Against Theocrines
  • Speech 59: Apollodorus Against Neaera
  • Speech 60: The Funeral Speech
  • Speech 61: The Erotic Essay
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    Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61

    Against Conon

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    [3] Two years ago I went out to Panactum,1 where we had been ordered to do garrison duty. The sons of the defendant, Conon, encamped near us, as I would to heaven they had not done; for our original enmity and our quarrels began in fact just there. How these came about, you shall hear. These men used always to spend the entire day after luncheon in drinking, and they kept this up continually as long as we were in the garrison. We, on our part, conducted ourselves while in the country just as we were wont to do here.

    1 Panactum was an Athenian fort on the borders of Boeotia. An expedition to this point in 343 B.C . is mentioned by Demosthenes in Dem. 19.326. However, as we are told by Aristot. Ath. Pol. 42.4, that the ephêboi (young men of military age), in the second year of their training, patrolled the country and spent their spare time in the forts, it may be that no formal military expedition is meant. In that case the loose discipline is more understandable.

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    Further comments from J. E. Sandys, Select Private Orations of Demosthenes:
    section 3: exêlthon
    section 3: etos touti triton
    section 3: phrouras..prographeisês
    section 3: hôs ouk han eboulomên
    section 3: proskroumata
    section 3: ex hôn d', hakousesthe
    section 3: aristêseian ... deipnopoieisthai

    Cross references from J.F. Dobson, The Greek Orators:
    9, 5 [Style and composition]

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    Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
    OCLC: 10903477
    ISBN: 0674993861, 0674994124

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