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  • Speech 1: On the Murder of Eratosthenes
  • Speech 2: Funeral Oration
  • Speech 3: Against Simon: Defense
  • Speech 4: On A Wound By Premeditation
  • Speech 5: For Callias
  • Speech 6: Against Andocides
  • Speech 7: Defense in the Matter of the Olive Stump
  • Speech 8: Accusation of Calumny
  • Speech 9: For The Soldier
  • Speech 10: Against Theomnestus 1
  • Speech 11: Against Theomnestus 2
  • Speech 12: Against Eratosthenes
  • Speech 13: Against Agoratus
  • Speech 14: Against Alcibiades 1
  • Speech 15: Against Alcibiades 2
  • Speech 16: In Defense of Mantitheus
  • Speech 17: On The Property Of Eraton
  • Speech 18: On The Property Of The Brother Of Nicias: Peroration
  • Speech 19: On the Property of Aristophanes
  • Speech 20: For Polystratus
  • Speech 21: Defence Against A Charge Of Taking Bribes
  • Speech 22: Against The Corn-Dealers
  • Speech 23: Against Pancleon
  • Speech 24: On The Refusal Of A Pension
  • Speech 25: Defense Against a Charge of Subverting the Democracy
  • Speech 26: On the Scrutiny of Evandros
  • Speech 27: Against Epicrates and his Fellow-envoys
  • Speech 28: Against Ergocles
  • Speech 29: Against Philocrates
  • Speech 30: Against Nicomachus
  • Speech 31: Against Philon
  • Speech 32: Against Diogeiton
  • Speech 33: Olympic Oration
  • Speech 34: Against The Subversion of the Ancestral Constitution
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    Lysias, Speeches

    On the Murder of Eratosthenes

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    [16] So the old creature accosted me where she was on the look-out, near my house, and said,--“Euphiletus, do not think it is from any meddlesomeness that I have approached you; for the man who is working both your and your wife's dishonor happens to be our enemy. If, therefore, you take the servant-girl who goes to market and waits on you, and torture her, you will learn all. It is,” she said, “Eratosthenes of Oe who is doing this; he has debauched not only your wife, but many others besides; he makes an art of it.”


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    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    409 [a) Akkusativ bei transitiven Verben, sowie bei transitiv gebrauchten Intransitiven.]
    462 [Weglassung des Artikels.]
    465 [Gebrauch des Artikels bei Pronomen und Zahlwörtern mit und ohne Substantiv.]

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    607 [Bemerkungen über besondere Eigentümlichkeiten in der Stellung.]

    Cross references from Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek:
    4, 63 [einai and gignomai]: esti d', ephê, Eratosthenês Oiêthen ho tauta prattôn
    6, 5, 128 [In the oblique cases:]: tautên gar technên echei
    668 [Predicate with the Article:]: esti d', ephê, Eratosthenês . . . ho tauta prattôn

    Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos:
    10, 7, 3 [VI 3. On the Death of Eratosthenes, Or. I]: Oiêthen

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    This text is based on the following book(s):
    Lysias. Lysias with an English translation by W.R.M. Lamb, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
    OCLC: 7623486
    ISBN: 0674992695

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