Sir Richard C. Jebb, The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos, Lysias: Forensic Speeches in Private Causes; Miscellaneous Writings; Fragments, Fragments., 5. Against Archebiades.

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5. Against Archebiades.

5. Against Archebiades.—A young Athenian citizen who has lately succeeded to a fortune by his father's death is sued by Archebiades for a debt alleged to have been contracted by his father. The point of the contrast which Dionysios¹ illustrates by an extract from this speech is the same as in the two last cases. Isaeos, too, had once occasion to write for a young client inexperienced in lawsuits. Yet even here he could not prevent his artificialism from showing itself. Lysias, on the contrary, has given to the life the character of a man who was never in a law-court before, who does not deserve to be there now, and who hopes never to be there again.

1 De Isaeo c. 10.

The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos. Sir Richard C. Jebb. London. Macmillan. 1876.

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