Literary Record Details

Author: DEMOSTHENES Orat.

Opus: Contra Boeotum 1
Reference: Dem.39.21

Period: Classical

Genre: prose
Subgenre: forensic
Object:
Gender: m
Context: legal

Greek Text: ἀλλ᾽ ἄτοπον δίκην μὲν λαγχάνειν τούτου, κωλύειν δὲ πάλιν.

English Text: But it would have been absurd to bring suit to force this and then afterwards to seek to prevent it.

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Kleros 271, Dem.39.21
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