Demosthenes, Against Lacritus, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 41

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[41] This fellow Lacritus, men of the jury, has not come into court relying on the justice of his case, but realizing perfectly what he and his brothers have done in the matter of this loan; and because he considers that he is clever and will easily provide arguments to defend evil practices,¹ he thinks he will lead you astray just as he pleases. For it is precisely in these matters that he professes himself to be clever, and he asks money, and collects pupils, promising to instruct them in these very things.

Against Lacritus. Demosthenes. Augustus Taber Murray (Translator). London. 1936.

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Androcles Against Lacritus (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 1. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936 (printing).)

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πρὸς τὴν Λάκριτον παραγραφὴν Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. II, Part 2. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921.) — 41 focus

[41] Λάκριτος δʼ οὑτοσί, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, οὐ τῷ δικαίῳ πιστεύων εἰσελήλυθε ταύτην τὴν δίκην, ἀλλʼ ἀκριβῶς εἰδὼς τὰ πεπραγμένʼ αὑτοῖς περὶ τὸ δάνεισμα τοῦτο, καὶ ἡγούμενος δεινὸς εἶναι καὶ ῥᾳδίως λόγους ποριεῖσθαι περὶ ἀδίκων πραγμάτων, οἴεται παράξειν ὑμᾶς ὅποι ἂν βούληται. ταῦτα γὰρ ἐπαγγέλλεται δεινὸς εἶναι, καὶ ἀργύριον αἰτεῖ καὶ μαθητὰς συλλέγει περὶ αὐτῶν τούτων ἐπαγγελλόμενος παιδεύειν.

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Against Lacritus

1. The close parallel between this passage and the portrayal of the school of Socrates in Aristoph. Cl. will hardly escape the reader.

Demosthenes Against Lacritus 41

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

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