Lysias, For Callias, W.R.M. Lamb (Translator), 5

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[5] The trial, in my opinion, ought to be regarded, not as the personal affair of the accused, but as the common concern of everybody in the city; for these¹ are not the only people who own servants; they are owned by everyone else, and looking at the fate of the accused will no longer ask themselves by what great service to their masters they might gain their freedom, but by what lying information about them. Concl

For Callias. Lysias. W.R.M. Lamb (Translator). London. 1930.

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ὑπὲρ Καλλίου ἱεροσυλίας ἀπολογία Perseus (Lysias. Lamb, W.R.M., editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930.) — 5 focus

[5] ἄξιον δέ μοι δοκεῖ εἶναι οὐ τούτων ἴδιον ἡγεῖσθαι τὸν ἀγῶνα, ἀλλὰ κοινὸν ἁπάντων τῶν ἐν τῇ πόλει· οὐ γὰρ τούτοις μόνοις εἰσὶ θεράποντες, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις ἅπασιν, οἳ πρὸς τὴν τούτων τύχην ἀποβλέποντες οὐκέτι σκέψονται ὅ τι ἂν¹ ἀγαθὸν εἰργασμένοι τοὺς δεσπότας ἐλεύθεροι γένοιντο, ἀλλʼ ὅ τι ψεῦδος περὶ αὐτῶν μηνύσαντες Concl

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For Callias

1. Others besides Callias appear to have been involved in the accusation.

Lysias For Callias 5

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