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Proofs (πίστεις) section of the speech: 85–125.

Not only should Phano not have performed the sacred duties of the king archon’s wife, she should not have participated in any of the city’s rites, since adulteresses are banned from entering all public temples. Apollodoros has the law on adultery read aloud.

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λαβὲ δή μοι...καὶ ἀνάγνωθι: “please take...and read aloud....” Imperatives addressed to the court clerk. μοι is an ethical dative (see §25, G. 523a, S.1486).

ἀπέχεσθαι: governs a series of genitives: τῶν ἱερῶν τούτων; the articular infinitives τοῦ ὁρᾶν καὶ θύειν καὶ ποιεῖν; and τῶν…ἁπάντων. Being banned from the religious life of the city was akin to disenfranchisement (ἀτιμία) for a woman.

τι τῶν νομιζομένων...πατρίων: “any of the ancestral rites”

τῶν ἄλλων: other religious rites

Ἀθήνησιν: locative (see §35)

μοιχός: οf course, earlier Apollodoros said that the affair with Epainetos was not really μοιχεία since Phano was not a legitimate citizen; here, it serves his purposes to say that it was.

γυναικί: take first in the sentence; dative with οὐκ ἔξεστιν, picked up again with αὐτῇ 

ἱερῶν τῶν δημοτελῶν: here, most likely public “temples,” rather than “sacred rites” (cf. the use of ἱερῶν earlier in this paragraph)

ἐλθεῖν ἐξουσίαν ἔδοσαν: most editors (including Dilts 2009) delete ἐλθεῖν, which likely erroneously repeats the preceding ἐλθεῖν; the sense of ἐξουσίαν ἔδοσαν is completed by εἰσιέναι.

θεασομένην…ἱκετεύσουσαν: note the future tense of these participles: “whether to view the spectacle or to offer prayer” (Murray)

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μόναις: this is not strictly speaking true, since murderers were also barred from participating in the city’s religious activities.

ἀπαγορεύουσιν: verbs of hindering take a infinitive, often with the redundant (untranslated) μή (G. 572, S. 2038).

τιμωρίαν ὑπέρ: “vengeance upon/against”

ἐποίησεν: introduces an indirect statement (accusative subject + infinitive)

τἄλλα: accusative of respect, to be taken closely with ὑβρισθεῖσαν; looks back to πλὴν θανάτου, that is, “things other than death”

ὑβρισθεῖσαν αὐτὴν μηδαμοῦ λαβεῖν δίκην: “that she, having been mistreated, may seek redress nowhere,” i.e., before no court or tribunal. μηδαμοῦ is an adverb.

τοῖς ἱεροῖς: “holy places,” “sanctuaries,” “temples” (LSJ III.2)

τοῦ σωφρονεῖν: articular infinitive expressing purpose (G. 576), “so that they might have self-control” 

διδάσκων: νόμος is the antecedent

ἄν = ἐάν

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εἴσεσθε < οἶδα

ἕλῃ: supply as subject τις.