Athenian State
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Against Aphobus II (Greek)
For you will find that the evidence adduced proves not that my grandfather is a state-debtor, but that he was one.
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Against Aphobus II
The Athenian polity and its treasury, to which property values were disclosed for tax assessment and to which the grandfather was allegedly indebted.
For you will find that the evidence adduced proves not that my grandfather is a state-debtor, but that he was one.
For he declared that my grandfather was a debtor to the state, and that for this reason my father would not have the property let, for fear of the risks he would run.
Furthermore, Aphobus himself in conjunction with his co-trustees revealed to the state the amount of the property left me, when he appointed me leader of the tax-group and that at no low rating, but at one so high as to entail a payment of five hundred drachmae on each twenty-five minae.
Against Aristogeiton I
The Athenian civic body whose treasury, laws, harmony, and welfare are at stake.
For you, Athenians, observing what I have called the natural bond of mutual kindness, live as a corporate body in this city just as families live in their private homes.
Hence it is that that general harmony, which is the source of all our blessings, is firmly established in our city.
My first reason is that honest folk, who are hampered by security for others and kind offices and private debts involving no wrong to the State, but who happen to have been unlucky, are placed by him in the same infamous category as himself, contrary to what is right and fitting.