Dinarque
Dinarque , in Greek old Δείναρχο / Deínarkhos , born with Corinth towards 365, died with Athens after 292.
Born with Corinth, Dinarque settles rather young person in Athens. It binds friendship with Démétrius de Phalère and becomes the pupil of the speaker Théophraste. It engages then in a career of logographe, where it seems to have met a certain success. He is requested in 324 at the time of the Affaire of Harpale where Démosthène is accused of corruption. He then writes on this occasion a Against Démosthène for one of the head prosecutors.
After the death of Alexandre Large the and that of the other large speakers, he becomes the first speaker of Athens, which enables him to pile up a small fortune. Worried for its friendships with the aristocratic party, it is withdrawn with Chalcis, in Eubée. It returns to Athens only in 292, where it dies shortly after.
It remains us of Dinarque only three speeches, all three concerning the lawsuit of Harpale: Against Démosthène , Against Aristogiton , Against Philoctète . Their quality is rather average: formally, they are of a great perfection, but they miss originality and of force. One generally regards it as “under-Démosthène”.
They are in the Oratores graeci of Johann Jacob Reiske, Leipzig, 1770, in the Bibliotheca graeca of Didot, were published in share in Leipzig, into 1827 by Schmidt, into 1842 by Matzner, and were translated by Athanase Auger. Several allot to him the Charge against Théocrine , which is in works of Démosthène.
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