Lycurgus, Against Leocrates, ed. J. O. Burtt, 144

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[144] ἐν τῇ ἐκείνων πόλει μᾶλλον ἢ ἐν τῇ ἑαυτοῦ πατρίδι ἐνόμισεν εἶναι. ποία δʼ ἡλικία δικαίως ἂν τοῦτον ἐλεήσειε; πότερον ἡ τῶν πρεσβυτέρων; ἀλλʼ οὐδὲ γηροτροφηθῆναι οὐδʼ ἐν ἐλευθέρῳ τῷ¹ ἐδάφει τῆς πατρίδος αὐτοῖς ταφῆναι τὸ καθʼ αὑτὸν μέρος παρέδωκεν. ἀλλʼ ἡ τῶν νεωτέρων; καὶ τίς ἂν² ἀναμνησθεὶς τῶν ἡλικιωτῶν τῶν ἐν Χαιρωνείᾳ ἑαυτῷ³ συμπαραταξαμένων καὶ τῶν κινδύνων τῶν αὐτῶν μετασχόντων, σώσειε τὸν τὰς ἐκείνων θήκας προδεδωκότα, καὶ τῇ αὐτῇ ψήφῳ τῶν μὲν ὑπὲρ τῆς ἐλευθερίας τελευτησάντων παράνοιαν⁴ καταγνοίη, τὸν δʼ ἐγκαταλιπόντα⁵ τὴν πατρίδα ὡς εὖ φρονοῦντα ἀθῷον ἀφείη;

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).) — 144 focus

[144] Would any men, no matter what their age, be justified in pitying him? Take the older generation. He did his best to deny them so much as a safe old age or even a grave in the free soil of their native land. What of the younger men? Would any of them, remembering their contemporaries, comrades in arms at Chaeronea who shared the same dangers, absolve the man who has betrayed the graves they lie in? Would they, in the same vote, denounce as mad those who died for freedom and let Leocrates who deserted his country go unpunished as a sane man?

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Against Leocrates

1. τῷ add. Dobree.

2. ἂν add. Schaub.

3. ἑαυτῷ Morus: ἑαυτοῖς codd.

4. παράνοιαν Reiske: παρανοίας codd.

5. δ’ ἐγκαταλιπόντα Bekker: δὲ καταλιπόντα codd.

Lycurgus Against Leocrates 144

ed. J. O. Burtt

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