Translation of the speech Against Euthynus (without witness) of Isocrates
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https://doi.org/10.34019/2318-3446.2020.v8.28174Keywords:
Isocrates, Against Euthynus, forensic, epideictic, eikósAbstract
Of all the speeches composed by the Athenian Isocrates (436-338 B.C.) that reached our days, Against Euthynus is perhaps the oldest (403 B.C.) and the shortest one (21 sections). It is a fragment of a forensic speech of accusation in which a certain Nicias requests the return of a deposit in cash that had been entrusted to his cousin Euthynus. It is possible, nevertheless, that the speech might be fictitious and, therefore, that the text we have nowadays is a draft of a model speech of epideictic nature in which Isocrates demonstrates to his pupils how to compose an accusation based solely on appeals to probability (εἰκός), considering that there were no witnesses to the case (a ἀμάρτυρος speech). Thus, I present the translation of Isocrates' Against Euthynus according to Mario Marzi’s edition (1991) from the Italian collection Classici Greci.
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