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[Demosthenes] De Halonneso 13

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

A. R. W. Harrison
A. R. W. Harrison
Affiliation:
Merton College, Oxford
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Extract

This passage has been very frequently discussed, but the deductions drawn from it have been so various and the exact meaning of the Greek has often been left so vague that it seemed to merit one more attempt at analysis.

Type
Research Article
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 10 , Issue 3-4 , November 1960 , pp. 248 - 252
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1960

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1 I suggest very tentatively that the word in § 12 a to be taken concessively and that the point is this; litigants from such a distance as Macedon were likely to suffer much more severely owing to delays in the Athenian courts than those from, say, Aegina or Euboea. States at a distance therefore were more likely than neighbouring states to arrange for smooth and speedy litigation in each other&s courts by means of a treaty; but at Athens the institution of by providing for this smooth and speedy litigation, rendered treaties unnecessary even with the most distant states.

2 Naturally I have not attempted to exhaust the possibilities. I only suggest those which either have been or might be plausibly connected with this passage.