κατὰ Κόνωνος αἰκείας

Sections

1 – 1 2 – 2 3 – 3 4 – 5 6 – 6 7 – 7 8 – 9 9 – 11 12 – 13 14 – 14 15 – 17 17 – 19 20 – 21 22 – 24 25 – 25 26 – 26 27 – 28 29 – 30 31 – 31 32 – 32 33 – 33 34 – 35 36 – 37 38 – 38 39 – 39 40 – 40 41 – 42 43 – 44

İngilizce Yunanca

32 —as though you would believe them off-hand, and would have no regard to the truth of the matter that, to begin with, Lysistratus and Paseas and Niceratus and Diodorus, who have expressly testified that they saw me being beaten by Conon, stripped of my cloak, and suffering all the other forms of brutal outrage I experienced—men, remember, who were unacquainted with me and who happened on the affair by chance—that these men, I say, would never in the world have consented to give testimony which they would have known to be false, if they had not seen the maltreatment which I received; and, secondly, that I myself, if I had not been thus treated by the defendant, should never have let off men who are admitted by my opponents themselves to have struck me, and have chosen to proceed first against the one who never laid a finger on me.