Lysias, Funeral Oration, W.R.M. Lamb (Translator), 61

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[61]
But though I have been led to utter this lament over Greece as a whole, it behoves us to remember, in public as in private, those men¹ who, shunning slavery, fighting for the right, and rallying to the cause of democracy, incurred the hostility of all and returned to the Peiraeus; compelled by no law, but induced by their nature; imitating in fresh encounters the ancient valor of their ancestors;

Funeral Oration. Lysias. W.R.M. Lamb (Translator). London. 1930.

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Funeral Oration (English) (Lysias. Lamb, W.R.M., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930.)

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[61] ἀλλὰ ταῦτα μὲν ἐξήχθην ὑπὲρ πάσης ὀλοφύρασθαι τῆς Ἑλλάδος· ἐκείνων δὲ τῶν ἀνδρῶν ἄξιον καὶ ἰδίᾳ καὶ δημοσίᾳ μεμνῆσθαι, οἳ φεύγοντες τὴν δουλείαν καὶ περὶ τοῦ δικαίου μαχόμενοι καὶ ὑπὲρ τῆς δημοκρατίας στασιάσαντες πάντας πολεμίους κεκτημένοι εἰς τὸν Πειραιᾶ κατῆλθον, οὐχ ὑπὸ νόμου ἀναγκασθέντες, ἀλλʼ ὑπὸ τῆς φύσεως πεισθέντες, καινοῖς κινδύνοις τὴν παλαιὰν ἀρετὴν τῶν προγόνων μιμησάμενοι,

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Funeral Oration

1. The speaker returns to the story of Athens after Aegospotami—the tyranny of the Thirty and the democratic opposition in the Peiraeus, 404-403 B.C. For the whole series of events see the General Introduction and Chronological Summary.

Lysias Funeral Oration 61

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