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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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    On the Choreutes

    True happiness for one who is but human, gentlemen, would mean a life in which his person is threatened by no peril: and well might that be the burden of our prayers. But well too might we pray that if we must perforce face danger, we may have at least the one consolation which is to my mind the greatest of blessings at such an hour, a clear conscience; so that if disaster should after all befall us, it will be due to no iniquity of ours and bring no shame; it will be the result of chance rather than of wrongdoing.

    [2] It would be unanimously agreed, I think, that the laws which deal with cases such as the present are the most admirable and righteous of laws. Not only have they the distinction of being the oldest in this country, but they have changed no more than the crime with which they are concerned; and that is the surest token of good laws, as time and experience show mankind what is imperfect. Hence you must not use the speech for the prosecution to discover whether your laws are good or bad: you must use laws to discover whether or not the speech for the prosecution is giving you a correct and lawful interpretation of the case.1

    1 Cf. Antiph. 5.14.

    There are a total of 4 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Cross references from Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges:
    2147 [REMARKS ON SOME USES OF PARTICIPLES]
    2676 [THE NEGATIVES IN INDIRECT QUESTIONS]

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    490 [Häufiger Gebrauch der Partiz. im Griechischen. — Partiz. st. des Verbi finiti. — Verbindung des Verbi finiti u. des Partizips von Verben gleichen Stammes. — Übergang der Partizipialkonstruktion in die des Verbi finiti. — Verbindung des Partizips mit Relativ- oder Fragpronomen.]
    513 [Ou und mê bei Partizipien und Adjektiven.]

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