κατὰ Στεφάνου ψευδομαρτυριῶν α΄

Sections

1 – 2 3 – 3 4 – 4 5 – 6 7 – 8 9 – 11 12 – 13 14 – 15 16 – 17 18 – 19 20 – 22 23 – 25 25 – 26 27 – 28 28 – 29 30 – 31 31 – 32 33 – 34 34 – 35 36 – 37 38 – 39 40 – 42 43 – 44 45 – 46 47 – 49 50 – 51 52 – 54 55 – 56 57 – 60 60 – 61 62 – 63 64 – 65 66 – 66 67 – 68 69 – 70 71 – 73 74 – 75 76 – 78 79 – 80 81 – 82 83 – 84 85 – 86 87 – 88

İngilizce Yunanca

57 I wish now, men of the jury, to tell you of the most a outrageous thing which has been done to me,—a thing which more than anything else overwhelmed me with dismay in the course of the trial; for you will thus see even more clearly the fellow’s baseness, and I, by venting before you my grief for what has happened, shall find, as it were, a sort of relief. The deposition, which I thought was there, and which afforded the strongest evidence in support of my case, I did not find in the box.

58 At the time, dismayed by this misfortune, I could imagine nothing else than that the magistrate had wronged me and tampered with the box. Now, however, from what I have since learned, I find that the defendant Stephanus had filched the document away in the very presence of the arbitrator, when I had got up to put a witness on his oath. And to prove that I am speaking the truth in this, depositions shall first be offered you from those who were present at the time and saw it; for I do not think they will choose to take an oath of disclaimer.

59 But if they are shameless enough to do this the clerk shall read you a challenge by which you will catch them in the very act of perjury, and will know all the same that this man did steal the deposition. And yet, men of Athens, a person who would not shrink from being named as one who had stolen what was prejudicial to another—what do you suppose he would do in his own interest?

60 (To the clerk.) Read the deposition, and then this challenge.

60 The Deposition