Lycurgus, Against Leocrates, ed. J. O. Burtt, 53

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[53] Moreover you condemned Autolycus¹ and punished him because, though he himself had faced the dangers, he was charged with secretly sending his wife and sons away. Yet if you punished him when his only crime was that he had sent away persons useless for war, what should your verdict be on one who, though a man, did not pay his country the price of his nurture? The people also, who looked with horror upon what was taking place, decreed that those who were evading the danger which their country’s defence involved were liable for treason, meriting in their belief the extreme penalty.

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

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[53] μείναντος μὲν αὐτοῦ ἐν τοῖς κινδύνοις, ἔχοντος δʼ αἰτίαν τοὺς υἱεῖς καὶ τὴν γυναῖκα ὑπεκθέσθαι, καὶ ἐτιμωρήσασθε.¹ καίτοι εἰ τὸν τοὺς ἀχρήστους εἰς τὸν πόλεμον ὑπεκθέσθαι αἰτίαν ἔχοντα ἐτιμωρήσασθε, τί δεῖ πάσχειν ὅστις ἀνὴρ ὢν οὐκ ἀπέδωκε τὰ τροφεῖα τῇ πατρίδι; ἔτι δὲ ὁ δῆμος δεινὸν ἡγησάμενος εἶναι τὸ γιγνόμενον ἐψηφίσατο ἐνόχους εἶναι τῇ προδοσίᾳ τοὺς φεύγοντας τὸν ὑπὲρ τῆς πατρίδος κίνδυνον, ἀξίους εἶναι νομίζων τῆς ἐσχάτης τιμωρίας.

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Against Leocrates

1. For the trial of Autolycus compare Lyc. Fr. 9 and note.

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