Hyperides, Funeral Oration, ed. J. O. Burtt, 7

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[7] ἀλλʼ εὔηθες εἶναι ὑπολαμβάνω· τὸ ν μὲν γὰρ¹ ἄλλους τινὰς ἀνθρώπους ἐγκωμιάζοντα, ² οἳ πολλαχόθεν εἰς μίαν πόλιν συνεληλυθότες οἰκοῦσι γένος ἴδιον ἕκαστος συνεισενεγκάμενος, τοῦτον³ μὲν δεῖ κατʼ ἄνδρα γενεαλογεῖν ἕκαστον· περὶ δὲ Ἀθηναίων ἀνδρῶν τοὺ ς λόγου ς ποιούμενον,⁴ οἷς ἡ κοινὴ γένεσις α ὐτόχθοσιν οὖσιν ἀνυπέρβλητ ον τὴν εὐγένειαν ἔχει, περίεργον ἡγοῦμαι εἶναι ἰδίᾳ τὰ γένη ἐγκωμιάζειν.

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).) — 7 focus

[7] To do so would, I think, be foolish. Granted, if one is praising men of a different stamp, such as have gathered from diverse places into the city which they inhabit, each contributing his lineage to the common stock, then one must trace their separate ancestry. But from one who speaks of Athenians, born of their own country and sharing a lineage of unrivalled purity, a eulogy of the descent of each must surely be superfluous.

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Funeral Oration

1. τὸν μὲν γὰρ Schaefer.

2. Column 4

3. τοῦτον Cobet: τούτων S.

4. ποιούμενον ποιούμενος Cobet.

Hyperides Funeral Oration 7

ed. J. O. Burtt

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