Lysias, Accusation of Calumny, W.R.M. Lamb (Translator), 19

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[19] ἀλλʼ ὡς εὖνοι¹ ὄντες ἐμοὶ τὰ βέλτιστα ἐρεῖτε περὶ ἐμοῦ; ἀλλὰ καὶ νῦν ὑμεῖς με μόνοι² κακῶς λέγετε. τὸ μὲν οὖν ἐμὸν οὐκ ἐμποδὼν ὑμῖν ἔσται. τοιοῦτον δʼ ἄρα³ πρὸς ὑμᾶς αὐτοὺς πείσεσθε, ἐπειδή περ ὑμῖν ἔθος ἐστὶν ἕνα τῶν ξυνόντων ἀεὶ κακῶς λέγειν καὶ ποιεῖν· ἐπειδὰν ὑμῖν ἐγὼ μὴ ξυνῶ,⁴ πρὸς ὑμᾶς αὐτοὺς τρέψεσθε,⁵ κἄπειτα καθʼ ἕνα ἕκαστον ὑμῖν αὐτοῖς ἀπεχθήσεσθε, τὸ δὲ τελευταῖον εἷς ὁ λειπόμενος αὐτὸς αὑτὸν κακῶς ἐρεῖ.

Accusation of Calumny. Lysias. W.R.M. Lamb (Translator). London. 1930.

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κατηγορία πρὸς τοὺς συνουσιαστὰς κακολογιῶν (Greek) (Lysias. Lamb, W.R.M., editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930.)

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Accusation of Calumny Perseus (Lysias. Lamb, W.R.M., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930.) — 19 focus

[19] Or, as my well-wishers, will you speak the best you can about me? Why, today you are the only persons who speak ill of me! Well, for my part I shall not hinder you. And this is what will happen to you among yourselves, since it is your habit to be ever injuring one of your associates in speech and in act; when I have left your association, you will turn against yourselves; then you will conceive a hatred of each one of your number in turn; and finally the last one left will defame himself.

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Accusation of Calumny

1. εὖνοι Reiske: εὔνους MSS.

2. μόνοι Bekker: μόνον MSS.

3. δ’ ἄρα Thalheim: γὰρ MSS.

4. μὴ ξυνῶ Markland: μηνύσω, μηνίσω MSS.

5. τρέψεσθε Markland: τρέπεσθε MSS.

Lysias Accusation of Calumny 19

W.R.M. Lamb (Translator)

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