Demosthenes Against Aristogeiton I 1

ed. Samuel Henry Butcher

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[1] πάλαι καθήμενος, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, καὶ κατηγοροῦντος ἀκούων, ὥσπερ ὑμεῖς, Λυκούργου, τὰ μὲν ἄλλα καλῶς αὐτὸν ἡγούμην λέγειν, ἓν δὲ τεθαύμακα ὁρῶν ὑπερδιατεινόμενον, εἰ ἀγνοεῖ τοῦθʼ ὅτι οὔτε παρὰ τοὺς ὑφʼ ἑαυτοῦ λόγους εἰρημένους οὔτε παρὰ τοὺς ὑπʼ ἐμοῦ μέλλοντας ῥηθήσεσθαι τὰ τουτουὶ τοῦ ἀγῶνός ἐστιν δίκαιʼ ἰσχυρά, ἀλλʼ ὡς ἂν ἕκαστος ὑμῶν ἔχῃ πρὸς τὸ δυσχεραίνειν ἢ προσίεσθαι πονηρίαν.

Against Aristogeiton I. Demosthenes. ed. Samuel Henry Butcher. Oxford. 1907.

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κατὰ Ἀριστογείτονος α΄ (Greek) (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. II, Part 1. Butcher, S. H., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907.)

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Against Aristogeiton I Perseus (Demosthenes, Vol. III: Orations, XXI-XXVI. Vince, J. H., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1935 (printing).) — 1 focus

[1] Gentlemen of the jury, as I sat here for a long time and listened with you to the speech of Lycurgus for the prosecution, I thought it in general an excellent speech; but when I observed him unduly exerting himself, I was surprised that he should not realize that the strength of our case does not really depend on the arguments that he has used or that I am going to use, but on the disposition of each juryman either to be indignant at wickedness or to condone it.

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