Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30
Against Meidias
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[200] From that day onwards he has been talking, railing, and bellowing. Is there an election on? Meidias of Anagyrus is a candidate. He is the accredited agent of Plutarchus; he knows all the secrets; the city cannot hold him. His object in all this is obvious;he wants to proclaim that “I am not a pin the worse for the vote of the people: I have no fears or misgivings about the pending action.”
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Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
398 [Bemerkungen über die Modaladverbien an und ken.]
Cross references from Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek:
42, 540 [Appositive proper name without article. ]
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This text is based on the following book(s): Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939. OCLC: 10903477 ISBN: 0674993306, 0674993519
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