Lycurgus, Against Leocrates, ed. J. O. Burtt, 123

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Ψήφισμα

τί οὖν, ὦ ἄνδρες; ἆρά γʼ ὑμῖν δοκεῖ βουλομένοις μιμεῖσθαι τοὺς προγόνους πάτριον εἶναι Λεωκράτην μὴ οὐκ² ἀποκτεῖναι; ὁπότε γὰρ ἐκεῖνοι ἀνάστατον τὴν πόλιν οὖσαν τὸν λόγῳ μόνον προδιδόντα οὕτως ἀπέκτειναν, τί ὑμᾶς προσήκει τὸν ἔργῳ καὶ οὐ λόγῳ τὴν οἰκουμένην ἐκλιπόντα ποιῆσαι; ἆρʼ οὐχ ὑπερβαλέσθαι ἐκείνους ταῖς τιμωρίαις;³ καὶ ὅτʼ ἐκεῖνοι τοὺς ἐπιχειρήσαντας⁴ τῆς παρὰ τοῦ δήμου σωτηρίας ἀποστερεῖν οὕτως ἐκόλασαν, τί ὑμᾶς προσήκει τὸν αὐτοῦ⁵ τοῦ δήμου τὴν σωτηρίαν προδόντα ποιῆσαι; καὶ ὅτε ὑπὲρ τῆς δόξης ἐκεῖνοι τοὺς αἰτίους ἐτιμωροῦντο, τί ὑμᾶς ὑπὲρ τῆς πατρίδος προσήκει ποιεῖν;

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

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

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Against Leocrates Perseus (Lycurgus. Minor Attic Orators, Vol. 2. Burtt, J. O., translator. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1954 (printing).) — 123 focus

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Decree

What is your view, gentlemen? Do you think that if you wish to emulate your forefathers, it is in keeping to allow Leacrates to live? When they dispatched like that one who merely betrayed with his lips a city already desolate, how ought you, whose city prospered at the time, to treat the man who did in very fact desert it? Ought you not to outdo them in severity? When they chastised so sternly those who tried to rob them of the security which the people offered,¹ how ought you to treat a traitor to the people’s own safety? And if they, from considerations of honor only, took vengeance on criminals in this way, how should you react when your country is at stake?

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Against Leocrates

1. Titulum, quem supra post ἀπέκτεινεν habet N, om. alii codd., huc transtulit Rehdantz.

2. οὐκ add. N.

3. ταῖς τιμωρίαις Stephanus: τῆς τιμωρίας codd.

4. Post ἐπιχειρήσαντας Reiske ἑαυτούς, post σωτηρίας Blass τὴν πόλιν add.

5. αὐτοῦ Ζ: αὐτὴν ΝΑ.

Lycurgus Against Leocrates 123

ed. J. O. Burtt

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