Pseudo-Lucian Demosthenis encomium 30

ed. Karl Jacobitz

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Ἀρχίας

Οὐ γὰρ ἐκέλευες τήν γε πρώτην μὴ βιάζεσθαι; καίτοι πλέον ἂν οὐδὲ βιασαμένοις οὐδὲν ἦν· καὶ γὰρ οὖν ἐμελλήσαμεν.

Ἀντιπάτηρ

Οὐκ εὖ γε ὑμεῖς οὐδὲ μελλήσαντες. ἴσως οὖν ἐκ τῆς ὑμετέρας τέθνηκε βίας.

Ἀρχίας

Ἡμεῖς μὲν αὐτὸν οὐκ ἀπεκτείναμεν, βιάξεσθαι δὲ μὴ πείθουσιν ἀναγκαῖον ἦν. σοὶ δ’, ὦ βασιλεῦ, τί τὸ πλέον, εἰ ξῶν ἀφίκετο; πάντως οὐδὲν ἂν αὐτὸν ἢ ἀπέκτεινας.

Demosthenis encomium. Pseudo-Lucian. ed. Karl Jacobitz. Leipzig. 1913.

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Δημοσθένους Ἐγκώμιον (Greek) (Lucian (Pseudo). Luciani Samosatensis Opera, Vol. 3. Jacobitz, Karl, editor. Leipzig: Teuber, 1913.)

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Demosthenes: an Encomium Perseus (The Works of Lucian of Samosata; complete, with exceptions specified in the preface, Vol. 4. Fowler, H. W. and Fowler, F.G., translators. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.) — 30 focus

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Archias

Was it not your charge that we should use no force at first? Yet indeed we should have fared no better if we had; we did intend it.

Antipater

You did not well, even in the intention; it may be your violence killed him.

Archias

No, we killed him not; but if we could not persuade him, there was nothing for it but force. But, O King, how had you been the better off, if he had come alive? you could have done no more than kill him.

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Ἀρχίας Οὐ γὰρ ἐκέλευες τήν γε πρώτην μὴ βιάζεσθαι; καίτοι πλέον ἂν οὐδὲ βιασαμένοις οὐδὲν ἦν· καὶ γὰρ οὖν ἐμελλήσαμεν.

Ἀντιπάτηρ Οὐκ εὖ γε ὑμεῖς οὐδὲ μελλήσαντες. ἴσως οὖν ἐκ τῆς ὑμετέρας τέθνηκε βίας.

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Ἀρχίας

Οὐ γὰρ ἐκέλευες τήν γε πρώτην μὴ βιάζεσθαι; καίτοι πλέον ἂν οὐδὲ βιασαμένοις οὐδὲν ἦν· καὶ γὰρ οὖν ἐμελλήσαμεν.

Ἀντιπάτηρ

Οὐκ εὖ γε ὑμεῖς οὐδὲ μελλήσαντες. ἴσως οὖν ἐκ τῆς ὑμετέρας τέθνηκε βίας.