Lysias, On the Murder of Eratosthenes, W.R.M. Lamb (Translator), 2

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[2] And these feelings would be found, not only among you, but in the whole of Greece : for in the case of this crime alone, under both democracy and oligarchy, the same requital is accorded to the weakest against the strongest, so that the lowest gets the same treatment as the highest.¹ Thus you see, sirs, how all men abominate this outrage.

On the Murder of Eratosthenes. Lysias. W.R.M. Lamb (Translator). London. 1930.

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On the Murder of Eratosthenes (English) (Lysias. Lamb, W.R.M., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930.)

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[2] καὶ ταῦτα οὐκ ἂν εἴη μόνον παρʼ ὑμῖν οὕτως ἐγνωσμένα, ἀλλʼ ἐν ἁπάσῃ τῇ Ἑλλάδι· περὶ τούτου γὰρ μόνου τοῦ ἀδικήματος καὶ ἐν δημοκρατίᾳ καὶ ὀλιγαρχίᾳ ἡ αὐτὴ τιμωρία τοῖς ἀσθενεστάτοις πρὸς τοὺς τὰ μέγιστα δυναμένους ἀποδέδοται, ὥστε τὸν χείριστον τῶν αὐτῶν τυγχάνειν τῷ βελτίστῳ· οὕτως, ὦ ἄνδρες, ταύτην τὴν ὕβριν ἅπαντες ἄνθρωποι δεινοτάτην ἡγοῦνται.

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On the Murder of Eratosthenes

1. The general statement in these last words shows that the full sense of the preceding is: the same requital is accorded to the weakest against the strongest as to the strongest against the weakest.

Lysias On the Murder of Eratosthenes 2

W.R.M. Lamb (Translator)

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