Pseudo-Lucian, Demosthenis encomium, ed. Karl Jacobitz, 34

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ἐγὼ δέ, ὦ Παρμενίων, ἔφη, εἰ μέν 516 τις Ἀθηναῖος ὢν ἐν Ἀθήναις λέγων ἐμὲ τῆς πατρίδος προτιμᾷ, τούτοις ἀργύριον μὲν προέμην ἄν, φιλίαν δ’ οὐκ ἄν· εἰ δέ τις ὑπὲρ τῆς πατρίδος ἐμὲ μισεῖ, τούτῳ προσπολεμῶ μὲν ὡς ἀκροπόλει καὶ τείχει καὶ νεωρίοις καὶ τάφρῳ, θαυμάζω δὲ τῆς ἀρετῆς καὶ μακαρίζω γε τοῦ κτήματος τὴν πόλιν. καὶ τοὺς μὲν ἔξω τῆς χρείας γενόμενος ἥδιστ’ ἂν προσαπολέσαιμι, τὸν δὲ βουλοίμην ἂν ἐνταυθοῖ παρ’ ἡμῖν τυχεῖν γενόμενον μᾶλλον ἢ τὴν Ἰλλυριῶν ἵππον καὶ Τριβαλλῶν καὶ πᾶν τὸ μισθοφορικόν, τῆς ὅπλων βίας τὴν τοῦ λόγου πειθὼ καὶ τὸ τῆς γνώμης ἐμβριθὲς οὐδαμῆ τιθεὶς δεύτερον.

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.) — 34 focus

[34] This is the way I look at it, Parmenio. An Athenian who speaking in Athens prefers me to bis country shall have of my money, but not of my friendship 3 as for one who hates me for bis country’s sake, I will assault bim as I would a citadel, a wall, a dock, a trench, but I have only admiration for his virtue, and congratulations for the State that possesses him. The other kind I should like to crush as soon as they have served my purpose; but bim I would sooner have here with us than the Illyrian and Triballian horse and all my mercenaries; arguments that carry conviction, weight of intellect, I do not put below force of arms.

Pseudo-Lucian Demosthenis encomium 34

ed. Karl Jacobitz

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