Lysias, On the Olive Stump, W.R.M. Lamb (Translator), 6

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[6] For you are all aware that, among the numerous troubles that have been caused by the war, the outlying districts were ravaged by the Lacedaemonians,¹ while the nearer were plundered by our friends; so how can it be just that I should be punished now for the disasters that then befell the city?

On the Olive Stump. Lysias. W.R.M. Lamb (Translator). London. 1930.

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

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Ἀρεοπαγιτικὸς περὶ τοῦ σηκοῦ ἀπολογία Perseus (Lysias. Lamb, W.R.M., editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930.) — 6 focus

[6] πάντες γὰρ ἐπίστασθε ὅτι ὁ¹ πόλεμος καὶ ἄλλων πολλῶν αἴτιος κακῶν γεγένηται, καὶ τὰ μὲν πόρρω ὑπὸ Λακεδαιμονίων ἐτέμνετο, τὰ δʼ ἐγγὺς ὑπὸ τῶν φίλων διηρπάζετο· ὥστε πῶς ἂν δικαίως ὑπὲρ τῶν τότε² τῇ πόλει γεγενημένων συμφορῶν ἐγὼ νυνὶ δίκην διδοίην;

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On the Olive Stump

1. During the Peloponnesian War Pericles kept the people inside Athens , and allowed the Lacedaemonians to devastate Attica , as he knew that the strength of Athens was on the sea, not on the land. Our friendsmay refer to Boeotian and Thessalian troops which aided the Athenians in occasional attacks on the invaders. Cf. Thuc. 2.14,19,22 , etc.

Lysias On the Olive Stump 6

W.R.M. Lamb (Translator)

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