Ὑπὲρ Εὐξενίππου ἐισαγγελίας ἀπολογία πρὸς Πολύευκτον

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İngilizce Yunanca

2 Though there were five of them, not one waited to be tried; they left the city of their own accord and went into exile. The same is true of many others who were impeached. In fact it was a rare thing to see anyone subjected to impeachment appearing in court. So serious and so notorious were the crimes which at that time led to an impeachment. But the present practice in the city is utterly absurd.

3 Diognides and Antidorus the metic are impeached on a charge of hiring out flute-girls at a higher price than that fixed by law, Agasicles of PiraeusAgasicles, according to Harpocration and Suidas (sv. Ἀγασικλῆς), though an alien, bribed the people of Halimus to enroll him in their deme. The former adds that Dinarchus wrote a speech prosecuting him for this. See Din. Fr. 7. because he was registered in Halimus, and Euxenippus because of the dreams which he claims to have had; though surely not one of these charges has anything to do with the impeachment law.