ABSTRACT
Hypereides delivered this speech at Demosthenes’ trial stemming from the Harpalus affair (Part Three, Athens under Alexander, pp. 191-192). Demosthenes stood accused of receiving twenty talents of gold from Harpalus (col. 2, 10). The papyrus containing the sole surviving copy of this oration is extremely fragmentary. Significant parts of the text survive, but it is riddled throughout by lacunae (holes), both small and large. Accordingly, Hypereides 5 is not divided into standard sections as are the other speeches in this collection; instead it is cited by the papyrus column numbers.
