Against Leptines

Against Leptines

Against Leptines was a speech give by Demosthenes in which he called for the repeal of a law which denied anyone a special exemption from paying public charges ("leitourgiai"). This 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. 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. [Ernst Badian. "The road to prominence," in Ian Worthington (ed.), "Demosthenes: Statesman and Orator" (Routledge, 2000), p. 28.]

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* [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0072&layout=&loc=20.1 Text of the speech at the Perseus Digital Library]


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