Hyperides, Funeral Oration, ed. J. O. Burtt, 39

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[39] οἶμαι δὲ καὶ τοὺς¹ τὴν πρὸς ἀλλήλους φιλίαν τῷ δήμῳ βεβαιότατα ἐνδειξαμένους, λέγω δὲ Ἁρμόδιον καὶ Ἀριστογείτονα, οὐθένας οὕτως αὑτοῖς οἰκειοτέρους ὑμῖν εἶναι νομίζειν ὡς ² Λεωσθέ νη καὶ τοὺς ἐκείνῳ συναγωνισαμένους, οὐδʼ ἔστιν οἷς ἂν μᾶλλον ἢ τούτοις πλησιάσειαν ἐν Ἅιδου. εἰκότως· οὐκ ἐλάττω γὰρ ἐκείνων ἔργα διεπράξαντο, ἀλλʼ εἰ δέον εἰπεῖν, καὶ μείζω. οἱ μὲν γὰρ τοὺς τῆς πατρίδος τυράννους κατέλυσαν, οὗτοι δὲ τοὺς τῆς Ἑλλάδος ἁπάσης.

Funeral Oration. Hyperides. ed. J. O. Burtt. London. 1954.

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Ἐπιτάφιος (Greek) (Hyperides. Minor Attic Orators, Vol. 2. Burtt, J. O., editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1954 (printing).)

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Funeral Oration Perseus (Hyperides. Minor Attic Orators, Vol. 2. Burtt, J. O., translator. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1954 (printing).) — 39 focus

[39] Those too, I fancy, who gave the people the surest token of their mutual friendship, Harmodius and Aristogiton,¹ do not regard as Leosthenes and his comrades in arms; nor are there any with whom they would rather hold converse in the lower world than these. We need not wonder; for what these men did was no less a task than theirs; it was indeed, if judgement must be passed, a greater service still. Those two brought low the tyrants of their country, these the masters of the whole of Greece .

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Funeral Oration

1. τοὺς add. Babington.

2. οὐθένας usque ad ὡς locus corruptus: οὐδένας οὕτως αὑτοῖς οἰκείους ἂν εἶναι Sauppe: οὐδαμῶς αὑτοὺς οἰκειοτέρους ὑμῖν εἶναι νομίζειν ἢ Kenyon: οἰκείους ἑτέρους pro οἰκειοτέρους ci. L. A. Post. Alii alia.

Hyperides Funeral Oration 39

ed. J. O. Burtt

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