Lycurgus, Against Leocrates, ed. J. O. Burtt, 58

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[58] ἄξιον δʼ ἐστὶν οὐ μόνον αὐτῷ διὰ τὴν πρᾶξιν ὀργίζεσθαι ταύτην, ἀλλὰ καὶ διὰ τὸν λόγον τοῦτον· φανερῶς γὰρ ψεύδεσθαι τετόλμηκεν. οὔτε γὰρ πρότερον οὐδεπώποτε ἐγένετο ἐπὶ ταύτης τῆς ἐργασίας, ἀλλʼ ἐκέκτητο χαλκοτύπους, οὔτε τότʼ ἐκπλεύσας οὐδὲν εἰσήγαγεν ἐκ Μεγάρων, ἓξ ἔτη συνεχῶς ἀποδημήσας. ἔτι δὲ καὶ τῆς¹ πεντηκοστῆς μετέχων ἐτύγχανεν, ἣν οὐκ ἂν καταλιπὼν κατʼ ἐμπορίαν ἀπεδήμει.² ὥστʼ ἂν μέν τι περὶ τούτων λέγῃ, οὐδʼ ὑμᾶς ἐπιτρέψειν αὐτῷ νομίζω.

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).) — 58 focus

[58] Personally I know no help to equal this. He deserves your anger for this conduct and for his explanation too, since he has not hesitated to tell a blatant lie. For he never previously carried on this trade, being in fact a master smith; and subsequently, after his departure, he imported nothing to us from Megara , though he was away for six years without a break. Besides, he had, as it happens, an interest in the two per cent tax,¹ which he would never have left to live abroad on business. So if he says a word about these matters, I do not doubt that you will stop him.

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Against Leocrates

1. τῆς add. Heinrich.

2. ἀπεδήμει, ut vid., A corr.: ἐπεδήμει cett.

Lycurgus Against Leocrates 58

ed. J. O. Burtt

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