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The Orations of Demosthenes Against Timocrates, Aristogiton, Aphobus, Etc (4)
The Orations of Demosthenes Against Timocrates Aristogiton Aphobus Etc - 4 Author:Demosthenes Volume: 4 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1877 Original Publisher: G. Bell Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you ... more »can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE ORATION AGAINST PHINIPPUS. THE ARGUMENT. This was a proceeding arising out of that remarkable regulation of the Athenian law, called the Exchange of estates; whereby a person burthened with one of the public offices, as the trierarchy, or included in one of the higher classes of tax-payers, or in the select body of Three-hundred, was enabled to obtain relief, by requiring some richer person than himself either to take the public burden in his stead or to exchange properties with him. A summary of the law upon the subject has been given in the first Volume of this Translation, Appendices IV and V. The reader will find it more fully discussed in Bockh's Public Economy of Athens, and may compare what I have said upon one branch of the subject in the note to page 116 of this Volume. The complainant in the present case, whose name does not appear, had for some time been included in the select body of Three-hundred, who were not only subject to the highest rate of assessment to the property-tax, but were called upon, in case of necessity, to pay the whole tax in advance. Having lost three talents by the forfeiture of a mine, and sustained other misfortunes in his business, it became necessary for him to seek the relief which the law afforded. Accordingly, at the court held by the Generals in the month of Metagitniou, he applied for relief, and named Phsenippus as a person who ought to be- substituted in his stead. Notice of the intended appeal had of course been given to Phsenippua; and he attended at the court, and disputed his liability. To determine whether he ...« less