Lysias, For The Soldier, W.R.M. Lamb (Translator), 20

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[20] The injustice of these men only caused me a moderate annoyance, as I considered it ordained that one should harm one’s enemies and serve one’s friends;¹ but to be derived of justice at your hands would cause me a far deeper distress. For it will be thought that my evil plight is due, not to enmity, but to an evil condition of the State.

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

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[20] τούτων μὲν οὖν ἀδικούντων μετρίως ἂν¹ ἠγανάκτουν, ἡγούμενος τετάχθαι τοὺς μὲν ἐχθροὺς κακῶς ποιεῖν, τοὺς δὲ φίλους εὖ· παρʼ ὑμῶν δὲ τοῦ δικαίου στερηθεὶς πολὺ ἂν μᾶλλον λυπηθείην. διʼ ἔχθραν μὲν γὰρ οὐ δόξω κακῶς πεπονθέναι, διὰ κακίαν δὲ τῆς πόλεως.

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1. This doctrine was accepted by Greek thought as part of the fixed order of things: it appears in Hes. WD 351 , Pind. P. 2.83 , and a saying of Simonides to this effect is taken by Plato as the starting-point of his discussion of justice in Plat. Rep. 1.332 .

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