Sir Richard C. Jebb, The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos, Isokrates: Forensic speeches, section 1

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Antiphon: Style

Antiphon: Works

Andokides: Life

Andokides: Style

Lysias: Epideictic and deliberative speeches

Lysias: Forensic Speeches in Public Causes

Lysias: Forensic Speeches in Private Causes; Miscellaneous Writings; Fragments

Isokrates: Life

Isokrates: Theory of Culture

Isokrates: Style

Isokrates: Classification of Works; Scholastic Writings

Isokrates: Political Writings

Isokrates: Forensic speeches

I. Action for assault ( δίκη αἰκίας ).

II. Claim to an inheritance ( ἐπιδικασία ).

III. Action to recover a deposit ( παρακαταθήκης δίκη ).

IV. Action for damage ( δίκη βλάβης ).

V. Special plea ( παραγραφή ).

Isokrates: Letters and Fragments

The Matured Civil Eloquence.

The Decline and the Revival.

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THE six forensic speeches extant under the name of Isokrates belong to the first period of his literary life, and cover about ten years 403—393 B.C. They are all in private causes, and may be classed thus:—

I. Action for Assault (δίκη αἰκίας). Against Lochites. [Or. XX.]
II. Claim to an Inheritance (ἐπιδικασία). Aeginetikos. [Or. XIX.]

III. Action to Recover a Deposit (δίκη παρακαταθήκης).

1. Against Euthynus. [Or. XXI.]
2. Trapezitikos. [Or. XVII.]

IV. Action for Damage (δίκη βλάβης). Concerning the Team of Horses (περὶ τοῦ ζεύγους). [Or. XVI.]
V. Special Plea (παραγραφή). Against Kallimachos. [Or. XVIII.]

The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos. Sir Richard C. Jebb. London. Macmillan. 1876.

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