Demosthenes, Against Leptines, ed. Samuel Henry Butcher, 64

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[64] ἠκούσατε μὲν τῶν ψηφισμάτων, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί. τούτων δʼ ἴσως ἔνιοι τῶν ἀνδρῶν οὐκέτʼ εἰσίν. ἀλλὰ τὰ ἔργα τὰ πραχθέντʼ ἔστιν, ἐπειδήπερ ἅπαξ ἐπράχθη. προσήκει τοίνυν τὰς στήλας ταύτας κυρίας ἐᾶν τὸν πάντα χρόνον, ἵνʼ, ἕως μὲν ἄν τινες ζῶσι, μηδὲν ὑφʼ ὑμῶν ἀδικῶνται, ἐπειδὰν δὲ τελευτήσωσιν, ἐκεῖναι τοῦ τῆς πόλεως ἤθους μνημεῖον ὦσι, καὶ παραδείγμαθʼ ἑστῶσι τοῖς βουλομένοις τι ποιεῖν ὑμᾶς ἀγαθόν, ὅσους εὖ ποιήσαντας ἡ πόλις ἀντʼ εὖ πεποίηκεν.

Against Leptines. Demosthenes. ed. Samuel Henry Butcher. Oxford. 1907.

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περὶ τῆς Ἀτελείας πρὸς Λεπτίνην (Greek) (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. II, Part 1. Butcher, S. H., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907.)

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Against Leptines Perseus (Demosthenes. Vol. I. Olynthiacs, Philippics, Minor Public Speeches, Speech Against Leptines, I-XVII, XX. Vince, J. H., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1930 (printing).) — 64 focus

[64] You have heard the decrees, gentlemen of the jury. Perhaps some of the men named are no longer alive. But their deeds survive, since they were done once for all. It is fitting, therefore, to allow these inscriptions to hold good for all time, that as long as any of the men are alive, they may suffer no wrong at your hands, and when they die, those inscriptions may be a memorial of our national character, and may stand as proofs to all who wish to do us service, declaring how many benefactors our city has benefited in return.

Demosthenes Against Leptines 64

ed. Samuel Henry Butcher

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