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  • Speech 1: First Olynthiac
  • Speech 2: Second Olynthiac
  • Speech 3: Third Olynthiac
  • Speech 4: First Philippic
  • Speech 5: On the Peace
  • Speech 6: Second Philippic
  • Speech 7: On Halonnesus
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    Demosthenes, Speeches 1-10

    Second Olynthiac

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    [19] All the rest about his court, he said, are robbers and toadies, men capable of getting drunk and performing such dances as I hesitate to name to you here. This report is obviously true, for the men who were unanimously expelled from Athens, as being of far looser morals than the average mountebank--I mean Callias the hangman and fellows of that stamp, low comedians, men who compose ribald songs to raise a laugh against their boon companions--these are the men he welcomes and loves to have about him.


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    Further comments from H. Sharpley, Demosthenes: Olynthiacs I, II, III:
    section 19: loipous
    section 19: hoious . . . orcheisthai
    section 19: oknô
    section 19: thaumatopoiôn
    section 19: ton dêmosion
    section 19: mimous
    section 19: poiêtas
    section 19: heineka tou gelasthênai
    section 19: toutous agapai

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    585 [Übergang der Konstruktion von hôste c. inf. in die direkte Redeform. — Hôste (hôs) c. inf. u. an. — Hôs (selt. hôste) c. inf. in Zwischensätzen. — Hoios, hosos c. inf. st. hôste.]

    Cross references from Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek:
    6, 4, 99 [Adjective predicate of neuter plural subject. ]

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    Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
    OCLC: 10903499
    ISBN: 0674992636

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