Lysias, Speeches
Against Simon: Defense
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Although I was aware of much that was outrageous about Simon, gentlemen of the Council, I did not believe that he would ever have carried audacity to the pitch of lodging a complaint as the injured party to a case where he was the person who should be punished, and of taking that great and solemn affidavit1 and so coming before you.
1 The oath or affidavit (diômosia) taken by both parties to a suit at a private examination (anakrisis). See fn. 5 on Antiph. 5, On the Murder of Herodes.
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Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
584 [a) Hôste (hôs) mit dem Infinitive.]
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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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