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For my own part, by Zeus and the gods,
though I look at the matter from every side, I can see no reason why the jury
should be induced by you to give a verdict against the defendant. Why should
they? Because you make your charges so soon after the offence? But you make them
years and ages later. Ah, but you avoided the trouble of lawsuits all this time?
But who does not know of all the cases in which you have been engaged without
ceasing, not only prosecuting private suits of no less importance than the
present one, but maliciously trumping up public charges, and bringing men to
trial? Did you not accuse Timomachus? Did you not accuse Callippus, who is now
in Sicily? Or, again, Meno? or Autocles? or Timotheus? or hosts of others?1
1 Timomachus, Meno, and Autocles （see Dem 50.） were successive commanders of the Athenian fleet in Thracian waters, where Apollodorus served as trierarch. Callippus is all but certainly to be identified with the trierarch of that name, who at the bidding of Timomachus, and after Apollodorus's own refusal to do so, had transported the exile Callistratus from Macedonia to Thasos. Timotheus was the well-known Athenian general, against whom Apollodorus brought also a private suit to recover funds （Dem. 49）.
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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