κατὰ Εὐέργου καὶ Μνησιβούλου ψευδομαρτυριῶν

Sections

1 – 2 3 – 4 5 – 6 7 – 8 9 – 10 11 – 13 14 – 15 16 – 17 18 – 19 20 – 21 22 – 24 25 – 27 27 – 28 29 – 30 31 – 32 33 – 34 35 – 36 37 – 38 39 – 40 41 – 41 42 – 42 43 – 44 44 – 46 47 – 48 49 – 51 51 – 53 54 – 56 57 – 59 60 – 61 62 – 63 64 – 65 66 – 67 68 – 69 70 – 71 72 – 74 75 – 76 77 – 78 79 – 80 81 – 82

İngilizce Yunanca

14 he might fittingly have answered by urging that the arbitration be put off until the next meeting, in order that he might bring the woman and deliver her up to me; but as it is, Theophemus, they have deposed that it was you who desired to deliver up the woman and that I was not willing to receive her. How is it that you, who were the woman’s master, when you were on the point of tendering me this challenge, to which your witnesses have deposed, when you were forced to take refuge in this woman’s testimony to establish your case,

15 and when you had no other witness to my having assaulted you and having delivered the first blow—how is it, I ask, that you did not bring the woman with you to the arbitrator and deliver her up, having her then present in person, and being yourself her master? Nay, you state that you tendered the challenge; but no one saw the woman by means of whom you deceived the jurors, through producing false witnesses to represent that you wished to give her up.