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§§ 41, 42. Lacritus trusts in this case to his skill in eloquence, and his cleverness in making you take his own views of the matter. His brothers have been brought up in the same school, and are therefore equally dishonest. εἰδὼς τὰ πεπραγμένα ‘With a full knowledge of (the dishonesty of) the transactions they were engaged in.’ ταῦτα γὰρ ‘For this is just what he professes to be clever in; for this he asks for money and collects pupils, engaging to instruct them on these very points.’ So in Or. 19 § 48 καὶ ἐπαινέσαι δὲ Φίλιππον ὅτι ἐπαγγέλλεται τὰ δίκαια ποιήσειν. Here is a distinct charge against the Sophists of teaching ἀδικία, dishonesty. μαθητὰς συλλέγει Apart from his own brothers Artemon and Apollodorus, referred to in the next §, we find one other pupil of Lacritus in Archias of Thurii, ὁ κληθεὶς φυγαδοθήρας, ‘nicknamed the hunter of exiles,’ from being employed (under the orders of Antipater, in B.C. 322) to seize the orators who had fled from Athens — amongst others Hyperides and Demosthenes himself. Plutarch, Dem. 28 Ἕρμιππος τὸν Ἀρχίαν ἐν τοῖς Λακρίτου τοῦ ῥήτορος μαθητὴν ἀναγράφει. S.]
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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