Lycurgus, Against Leocrates, ed. J. O. Burtt, 26

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[26] Your fathers, honoring¹ Athena as the deity to whom their land had been allotted, called their native city Athens , so that men who revered the goddess should not desert the city which bore her name. By disregarding custom, country, and sacred images Leocrates did all in his power to cause even your divine protection to be exported. Moreover, to have wronged the city on this enormous scale was not enough for him. Living at Megara and using as capital the money which he had withdrawn from Athens he shipped corn, bought from Cleopatra,² from Epirus to Leucas and from there to Corinth .

Against Leocrates. Lycurgus. ed. J. O. Burtt. London. 1954.

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Against Leocrates (Greek) (Lycurgus. Minor Attic Orators, Vol. 2. Burtt, J. O., translator. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1954 (printing).)

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Κατὰ Λεωκράτους Perseus (Lycurgus. Minor Attic Orators, Vol. 2. Burtt, J. O., editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1954 (printing).) — 26 focus

[26] καὶ οἱ μὲν πατέρες ὑμῶν †τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν ὡς τὴν χώραν εἰληχυῖα†¹ ὁμώνυμον αὐτῇ τὴν πατρίδα προσηγόρευον Ἀθήνας, ἵνʼ οἱ τιμῶντες τὴν θεὸν τὴν ὁμώνυμον αὐτῇ² πόλιν μὴ ἐγκαταλίπωσι· Λεωκράτης δʼ οὔτε νομίμων οὔτε πατρίδος³ οὔθʼ ἱερῶν φροντίσας τὸ καθʼ ἑαυτὸν ἐξαγώγιμον ὑμῖν καὶ τὴν παρὰ τῶν θεῶν βοήθειαν ἐποίησε. καὶ οὐκ ἐξήρκεσεν αὐτῷ τοσαῦτα καὶ τηλικαῦτα τὴν πόλιν ἀδικῆσαι, ἀλλʼ οἰκῶν ἐν Μεγάροις, οἷς παρʼ ὑμῶν ἐξεκομίσατο χρήμασιν ἀφορμῇ χρώμενος, ἐκ τῆς Ἠπείρου παρὰ Κλεοπάτρας εἰς Λευκάδα ἐσιτήγει καὶ ἐκεῖθεν εἰς Κόρινθον.

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Against Leocrates

1. In order to give what must be the general sense of this corrupt passage I have translated Taylor’s suggested addition of τιμῶντες before τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν and ignored the words ὁμώνυμον. But the Greek text cannot be restored with certainty.

2. Cleopatra, the sister of Alexander the Great, was married to Alexander of Epirus in 336 and must now have been acting as regent for her husband while he was at war in Italy .

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