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But finding that they resented the offer
and that he could persuade neither Archons nor arbitrator, he threatened them
and blackguarded them and went off and—what do you think he did? Just
observe his malignity. [He appealed against the arbitration but omitted
the oath, thus allowing the verdict against him to be made absolute, and he was
recorded as unsworn. Then, wishing to conceal his real object,] he
waited for the last day1 for appeal
against the arbitrators, which falls in Thargelion or Scirophorion, a day on
which some of the arbitrators turned up but others did not;
1 It seems safest to follow the scholiast in this difficult passage. He explains that the arbitrators underwent their audit in the eleventh month of the year, i.e. Thargelion, though he makes the odd mistake of calling it Scirophorion. The last day of the month, called ἔνη καὶ νέα, belonged partly to the passing month and partly to the new. Strato, being off his guard, imagined that the month was over and that it was too late for complaints to be brought against him.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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