The Oration Of Demosthenes Against Meidias Edited For Use In Schools And Colleges

Author : C. A. M. Fennell
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ISBN 13 : 9781331912279
Total Pages : 158 pages
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Download or read book The Oration of Demosthenes Against Meidias written by C. A. M. Fennell and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Oration of Demosthenes Against Meidias: Edited for Use in Schools and Colleges, With Introduction, Analysis, Notes and Index This edition is designed for the use of students generally, and is not quite so elementary in some respects as that of the late Mr Holmes. The text is compiled from the editions of Baiter and Sauppe, who are referred to as the Zurich editors, and Buttmann (Ed.5). For the notes I am very much indebted to Meier, Buttmann, Schaefer, C.R. Kennedy, and Holmes. Critical notes are given only on such points as have seemed specially important for the settlement of the text, or generally interesting and instructive with regard to textual criticism. If I have occasionally taken the part of advocatus diaboli as represented by the bully Meidias, it is not out of sympathy with the defendant, but because the self-assertion and exaggeration, and the intense vindictiveness against a private enemy evinced in the speech are calculated to prejudice modern taste against the orator. He tells us that for deciding an arbitration case in his favour, one Straton had been deprived of his rights as a citizen by illegal procedure on Meidias part some years before, and yet Demosthenes does not seem to have raised his voice against this persecution until he wanted by exciting pity for Straton to increase the chance of getting redress for his own comparatively trifling wrongs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.