Antiphon, Against the Stepmother for Poisoning, section 2

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[2] Circumstances for which the defence have only themselves to blame have made it necessary that my charge should be directed against them, and them alone. One would have expected them to seek vengeance for the dead and support the prosecution; but as it is, the opposite is the case; they are themselves my opponents and the murderers, as both I and my indictment¹ state.

1 i.e., the charge as formally registered with the βασιλεύς （cf. Antiph. 6.38, 41 ff.）. The action itself was of course a δίκη φόνου

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Cross-references to this page (3):
- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter IV
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, Copula
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, Forms of the verbal predicate
Cross-references in notes from this page (1):
- Antiphon, On the Choreutes, 38
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (4):
- LSJ, ἀντίδι^κ-ος
- LSJ, βοηθ-όος
- LSJ, πα?́θ-ημα
- LSJ, τι_μωρ-ός

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