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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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    With gross outrage I have met, men of the jury, at the hands of the defendant, Conon, and have suffered such bodily injury that for a very long time neither my relatives nor any of the attending physicians thought that I should survive. Contrary to expectation, however, I did recover and regain my strength, and I then brought against him this action for the assault. All my friends and relatives, whose advice I asked, declared that for what he had done the defendant was liable to summary seizure as a highwayman, or to public indictments for criminal outrage1 ; but they urged and advised me not to take upon myself matters which I should not be able to carry, or to appear to be bringing suit for the maltreatment I had received in a manner too ambitious for one so young. I took this course, therefore, and, in deference to their advice, have instituted a private suit, although I should have been very glad, men of Athens, to prosecute the defendant on a capital charge.

    1 As guilty of highway robbery the defendant had made himself liable to summary arrest (apagôgê), and the gravity of his assault would have justified a public indictment for criminal outrage (hubreôs graphê), for either of which crimes he would, if convicted, have suffered a heavy penalty. The private suit for assault and battery (aikeias dikê) entailed merely a fine to be paid to the plaintiff.

    There are a total of 7 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Further comments from J. E. Sandys, Select Private Orations of Demosthenes:
    section 1: hubristheis&#ch2014;tautêni
    section 1: polun chronon panu
    section 1: elachon . dikên
    section 1: tês aikeias
    section 1: sunebouleuomên...sumbouleuontôn
    section 1: têi tôn lôpodutôn apagôgêi
    section 1: hubreôs graphais
    section 1: epagesthai
    section 1: huper tên hêlikian&#ch2014;phainesthai
    section 1: idian
    section 1: hêdist' han&#ch2014;touton
    section 1: thanatou
    section 1: krinas

    Cross references from J. E. Sandys, Select Private Orations of Demosthenes:
    36, 3
    45, 2
    45, 81
    46, 9

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    This text is based on the following book(s):
    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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