Pseudo-Lucian, Demosthenis encomium, ed. Karl Jacobitz, 41

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Ὑμεῖς δέ, ἔφη, διανοεῖσθε ὡς ὑπὲρ Εὐβούλου καὶ Φρύνωνος καὶ Φιλοκράτους, καὶ πειρᾶσθε δώροις καὶ τοῦτον ἀναπείθειν, ἄνθρῶπον 521 καὶ τὴν πατρῷαν οὐσίαν εἰς Ἀθηναίους ἰδίᾳ τε τοῖς δεηθεῖσι καὶ δημοσίᾳ τῇ πόλει καταναλωκότα, διαμαρτάνοντες δὲ φοβήσειν οἴεσθε πάλαι βεβουλευμένον τὴν ψυχὴν ὑποθεῖναι ταῖς τῆς πατρίδος ἀδήλοις τύχαις, καὶ καθαπτομένου τῶν πραττομένων ὑμῖν ἀγανακτεῖτε; ὁ δ’ οὐδὲ τὸν Ἀθηναίων δῆμον ὑποστέλλεται. λέληθεν ὑμᾶς, ἔφη, τῇ μὲν τῆς πατρίδος εὐνοίᾳ πολιτευόμενος, αὑτῷ δὲ τὴν πολιτείαν γυμνάσιον φιλοσοφίας προθέμενος.

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.) — 41 focus

[41] But you (said Aristotle) confuse bim with an Eubulus, a Phrynon, a Philocrates, and think to convert with gifts a man who has actually lavished his inheritance half on needy Athenians and half on Athens; you vainly imagine that you can intimidate one who has long ago resolved to set bis life upon his country’s doubtful fortunes; if he arraigns your proceedings, you try denunciation; why, the nearer terrors of the Assembly find him unmoved. You do not realize that the mainspring of his policy is patriotism, and that the only personal advantage he expects from it ts the improvement of his own nature.

Pseudo-Lucian Demosthenis encomium 41

ed. Karl Jacobitz

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