Lysias, On the Murder of Eratosthenes, W.R.M. Lamb (Translator), 30

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Μάρτυρες

ἀνάγνωθι δέ μοι καὶ τοῦτον τὸν νόμον τὸν¹ ἐκ τῆς στήλης τῆς ἐξ Ἀρείου πάγου.

Νόμος

ἀκούετε, ὦ ἄνδρες, ὅτι αὐτῷ τῷ δικαστηρίῳ τῷ ἐξ Ἀρείου πάγου, ᾧ καὶ πάτριόν ἐστι καὶ ἐφʼ ἡμῶν ἀποδέδοται τοῦ φόνου τὰς δίκας δικάζειν, διαρρήδην εἴρηται τούτου μὴ καταγιγνώσκειν φόνον,² ὃς ἂν ἐπὶ δάμαρτι τῇ ἑαυτοῦ μοιχὸν λαβὼν ταύτην τὴν τιμωρίαν ποιήσηται.

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

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Current edition Perseus

ὑπὲρ τοῦ Ἐρατοσθένους φόνου ἀπολογία (Greek) (Lysias. Lamb, W.R.M., editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930.)

Translations (1)

On the Murder of Eratosthenes Perseus (Lysias. Lamb, W.R.M., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930.) — 30 focus

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Witnesses

Read out also, please, that law from the pillar in the Areopagus.

Law

You hear, sirs, how the Court of the Areopagus itself, to which has been assigned, in our own as in our fathers’ time, the trial of suits for murder, has expressly stated that whoever takes this vengeance on an adulterer caught in the act with his spouse shall not be convicted of murder.

Notes on the current edition

On the Murder of Eratosthenes

1. τὸν add. Westermann.

2. τούτου φόνον Reiske: τοῦτον φόνου MSS.

Lysias On the Murder of Eratosthenes 30

W.R.M. Lamb (Translator)