Lysias, Against Theomnestus 1, W.R.M. Lamb (Translator), 4

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[4]
My age, gentlemen, is thirty-two, and your return to the city¹ was nineteen years ago. It will be seen, therefore, that I was thirteen when my father was put to death by the Thirty. At that age I neither knew what an oligarchy was, nor would have been able to rescue him from the wrong that he suffered.²

Against Theomnestus 1. Lysias. W.R.M. Lamb (Translator). London. 1930.

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κατὰ θεομνήστου, Α Perseus (Lysias. Lamb, W.R.M., editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930.) — 4 focus

[4] ἐμοὶ γάρ, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, ἔτη ἐστὶ δύο καὶ¹ τριάκοντα, ἐξ ὅτου δʼ² ὑμεῖς κατεληλύθατε, εἰκοστὸν τουτί. φαίνομαι οὖν τρισκαιδεκέτης ὢν ὅτε ὁ πατὴρ ὑπὸ τῶν τριάκοντα ἀπέθνησκε. ταύτην δὲ ἔχων τὴν ἡλικίαν οὔτε τί³ ἔστιν ὀλιγαρχία ἠπιστάμην, οὔτε ἂν ἐκείνῳ ἀδικουμένῳ ἐδυνάμην βοηθῆσαι.

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1. 403 B.C.

2. The speaker was thus too young either to be implicated in the political murder of his father or to aid in his protection.

Lysias Against Theomnestus 1 4

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