!Antiphon’s speech of self-defense (trans. Gagarin/Woodruff 1995)!!

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Report of Antiphon’s remark to Agathon after delivery of his defense speech and condemnation by the jury (trans. Dillon/Gergel 2002):

An alternative translation of Antiphon’s remark to Agathon (Morrison 1972):

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garchy was established, those that particularly brought it about being Peisander and Antiphon and Theramenes, men of good breeding who had a reputation for intelligence and understanding.

($) Eudemian Ethics 1115, iz^zb-j . . . the high-minded man would take more account of the opinion of the one expert than that of the many ordinary men, as Antiphon said to Agathon when after Antiphon's conviction Agathon praised his defense.

(6) LYSIAS 12, 67 [403 B.C.] Theramenes, wishing to seem loyal to all of you, accused and put to death his closest friends, Antiphon and Archeptolemus. . . .

12. ANTIPHON AS INTERPRETER OF DREAMS ( 1 ) [DK A 7] L U C I A N True Stones 11 33 [The island of dreams]

and nearby are two temples, one of Deception and the other of Truth. There they have a sanctuary and prophetic seat where Antiphon the interpreter of dreams stands forth to give prophecy, receiving his commission from Sleep.

(2) [DK A 8] CLEMENT Miscellanies V N 24 [111 17, 1 8 Stahlin] . . . the story about Antiphon is amusing. A man took it as an omen when a sow ate her litter; but, noticing that the sow was thin with lack of food through the meanness of its owner, [Antiphon] declared: "Be of good cheer at the omen. In her hunger she might well have eaten your children."

(3) [DiC A 9] G N O M O L O G I A VINDOBONENSIS 50 p. 14 Wachsmuth Antiphon, being asked what divination is, replied: "a wise man's guess." [The remainder refers to the tragic poet.]

1 3 . [DK A 4] A T H E N A E U S X V 673Ε [For Antiphon the tragic poet, cf. A 3 (17), A 4 (14), A 5 (7), A 6 (10), A 12 (3); and also HEGESANDER

in A T H E N A E U S XII 544D; ARISTOTLE Eudemian Ethics 111 5, I 2 3 9 A 3 8 ;

Rhetoricn 2, 1379^5; 6, I38jan; 23, 1399b2j; Mechanics 847a2o] For after [Adrastus the Peripatetic] had published a treatise in five books on the matters investigated, as to their facts or style of narration, in Theophrastus' On Characters, and a sixth on points in Aristotle's Nic-omachean Ethics, adding a long dissertation on Plexippus in Antiphon

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