Lycurgus, Against Leocrates, ed. J. O. Burtt, 52

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[52] σκέψασθε δʼ, ὦ ἄνδρες, ὅτι οὐδʼ ἐν¹ ὑμῖν ἐστιν ἀποψηφίσασθαι Λεωκράτους τουτουί, τὰ δίκαια ποιοῦσι. τὸ γὰρ ἀδίκημα τοῦτο κεκριμένον ἐστὶ καὶ κατεγνωσμένον. ἡ μὲν γὰρ ἐν² Ἀρείῳ πάγῳ βουλή (καὶ μηδείς μοι θορυβήσῃ· ταύτην γὰρ ὑπολαμβάνω μεγίστην τότε γενέσθαι τῇ πόλει σωτηρίαν) τοὺς φυγόντας³ τὴν πατρίδα καὶ ἐγκαταλιπόντας τότε τοῖς πολεμίοις⁴ λαβοῦσα ἀπέκτεινε. καίτοι, ὦ ἄνδρες, μὴ νομίζετε τοὺς τὰ τῶν ἄλλων φονικὰ ἀδικήματα ὁσιώτατα δικάζοντας αὐτοὺς ἂν εἴς τινα τῶν πολιτῶν τοιοῦτόν τι παρανομῆσαι. ἀλλὰ μὴν Αὐτολύκου μὲν⁵ ὑμεῖς κατεψηφίσασθε,

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).) — 52 focus

[52] You should bear in mind, gentlemen, that it is not even in your power, unless you go beyond your rights, to acquit this man Leocrates, since his offence has had judgement passed upon it and a vote of condemnation too. For the council of the Areopagus;—(No one need interrupt me. That council was, in my opinion, the greatest bulwark of the city at the time;)—seized and executed men who then had fled from their country and abandoned it to the enemy. You must not think, gentlemen, that these councillors who are so scrupulous in trying other men for homicide would themselves have taken the life of any citizen unlawfully.

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Against Leocrates

1. οὐδ’ ἐν Taylor: οὐδὲν codd.: οὐδ’ ἐφʼ Bekker.

2. ἐν Bekker: ἐπʼ codd.

3. φυγόντας A. G. Becker: φεύγοντας codd.

4. τοῖς πολεμίοις Bekker: τοὺς πολεμίους codd.: ὡς πολεμίους Ald.

5. μὲν γε Gebauer.

Lycurgus Against Leocrates 52

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