Lucian of Samosota, Demosthenis encomium, Henry Watson Fowler (Translator), Francis George Fowler (Translator), 48

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[48] Then I was minded to hale him off by force. Which when he observed, I saw him smile and glance at the God. Archias (he said) believes that there 1s no might, no refuge for the human soul, but arms and war-ships, walls and camps. He scorns that equipment of mine which ts proof against Illyrians and Triballé and Macedonians, surer than that wooden wall¹ of old, which the God averred none should prevail against. Secure in this I ever took a fearless course; fearless I braved the might of Macedonia; little I cared tor Euctemon or Aristogiton, for Pytheas and Callimedon, for Philip in the old days, for Archias to-day.

Demosthenis encomium. Lucian of Samosota. Henry Watson Fowler (Translator), Francis George Fowler (Translator). Medford, MA, USA. 2023-08-01.

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Demosthenes: an Encomium (English) (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.)

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Δημοσθένους Ἐγκώμιον First1KGreek (Lucian (Pseudo). Luciani Samosatensis Opera, Vol. 3. Jacobitz, Karl, editor. Leipzig: Teuber, 1913.) — 48 focus

Ἀρχίας

τότε δὴ τότε πρὸς βίαν αὐτὸν ἀποσπᾶν διενοούμην· ὁ δ’ ὡς ᾔσθετο, δῆλος ἦν καταγελῶν καὶ τὸν θεὸν προσβλέψας, Ἔοικεν Ἀρχίας, εἶπεν, ὅπλα μόνα καὶ τριήρεις καὶ τείχη καὶ στρατόπεδα δυνάμεις εἶναι καὶ κρησφύγετα ταῖς ἀνθρωπίναις ψυχαῖς ὑπολαμβάνειν, τῆς δ᾽ ἐμῆς παρασκευῆς καταφρονεῖν, ἣν οὐκ ἂν ἐλέγξειαν Ἰλλυριοὶ καὶ Τριβαλλοὶ καὶ Μακεδόνες 526 ἐχυρωτέραν ἢ ξύλινόν ποτε τεῖχος ἡμῖν, ὃ θεὸς ἀνεῖλεν ἀπόρθητον εἶναι· μεθ’ ἧς ἂν τῆς προνοίας ἀδεῶς μὲν ἐπολιτευσάμην, ἀδεὲς δέ μοι τὸ κατὰ Μακεδόνων θάρσος, ἐμέλησε δ’ οὐδὲν οὐκ Εὐκτήμονος, οὐκ Ἀριστογείτονος, οὐ Πυθέου καὶ Καλλιμέδοντος, οὐ Φιλίππου τότε, οὐ τὰ νῦν Ἀρχίου.

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Demosthenes an Encomium

1. Oracle in Herodotus vii. 141: ‘A bulwark of wood at the last Zeus grants to the Trito-born goddess Sole to remain unwasted.’ G.C. Macaulay, Variously interpreted of the thorn hedge of the Acropolis, and of the Athenian ficet.

Lucian of Samosota Demosthenis encomium 48

Henry Watson Fowler (Translator), Francis George Fowler (Translator)

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