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§ 24. He says I laid a plot to disfranchise him. Why, that is more than one citizen can do to another; much less therefore can a slave. The fact is, as I was myself absent, he was obliged, to make out any case at all, to lay it on my slave. ἀτιμῶσαι ‘To disfranchise’ by making him a debtor to the treasury, § 6. [Nicobulus had been charged in the plaint, § 22, with preventing the payment to the state of the sum due from Pantaenetus for the purchase of the mine. This would be equivalent to making Pantaenetus liable to ἀτιμία for being in debt to the state (Smith, Dict. Ant. i{3} 242 a).] γεγραφέναι ‘To have written in the indictment that I bade my slave,’ &c. δύναιτ᾽ ἄν viz. since this could only be done by the state. There is a sort of quibble between the direct and the indirect agency. Kennedy does not well render it, ‘which even a citizen would not venture to do to another citizen.’ εἰς ἐμὲ Emphatic. οὐδὲ λόγος ‘Not the shadow of a case.’ Kennedy.
Select Private Orations of Demosthenes, Part I. F. A. Paley, M.A., LL.D., and J. E. Sandys, Litt. D. 1898. Cambridge University Press.
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