| 词条 | Against Leptines |
| 释义 |
BackgroundDuring the Social War, a number of measures were passed in Athens to increase public revenue, including a law proposed by Leptines in 356 which abolished exemptions from liturgies. The law made it illegal both for the people of Athens to grant exceptions to liturgies, and for anybody to request an exception.[4] The law was challenged by an Athenian called Bathippus, but he died before the case came to court; later, this case was taken up by his son, Apsephion.[5] Apsephion proposed that Leptines' law should be repealed, and that it should be replaced by a law that provided for a procedure to remove an illegally-obtained exemption from liturgies. The case came to court in 355/4 BC.[6] HistoryThis law had been proposed by a man named Leptines, so the speech came to be known as Against Leptines. Although Dio Chrysostom (31.128-9) says that Demosthenes won the case, his account has been dismissed as inaccurate. West says that "we do not know the verdict".[7] An inscription shows that Ctesippus, son of Chabrias (whose inheritable exemption Demosthenes was arguing to preserve), performed a liturgy that "is unlikely to have been voluntary," and there is no evidence of any grants of exemption after the trial.[8] References1. ^{{cite journal|title=The Decrees of Demosthenes' "Against Leptines"|first=William C.|last=West|journal=Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik|volume=107|year=1995|page=238}} 2. ^{{cite journal|title=The Decrees of Demosthenes' "Against Leptines"|first=William C.|last=West|journal=Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik|volume=107|year=1995|page=239}} 3. ^{{cite journal|title=A Fourth Study on Demosthenes' Ability to Speak Extemporaneously|first=Alfred P.|last=Dorjahn|journal=Classical Philology|volume=50|issue=3|year=1955|page=191}} 4. ^{{cite book|last=Harris|first=Edward M.|title=Demosthenes, Speeches 21–22|publisher=University of Texas Press|location=Austin|page=16}} 5. ^{{cite book|last=Harris|first=Edward M.|title=Demosthenes, Speeches 21–22|publisher=University of Texas Press|location=Austin|pages=16–17}} 6. ^{{cite book|last=Harris|first=Edward M.|title=Demosthenes, Speeches 21–22|publisher=University of Texas Press|location=Austin|page=17}} 7. ^{{cite journal|title=The Decrees of Demosthenes' "Against Leptines"|first=William C.|last=West|journal=Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik|volume=107|year=1995|page=245}} 8. ^Ernst Badian. "The road to prominence," in Ian Worthington (ed.), Demosthenes: Statesman and Orator (Routledge, 2000), p. 28. External links
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