Lysias, Against Eratosthenes, who had been One of the Thirty: Spoken by Lysias Himself, W.R.M. Lamb (Translator), 24

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[24] I propose to put him up on the dais and question him, gentlemen of the jury. For my feeling is this: even to discuss this man with another for his profit I consider to be an impiety, but even to address this man himself, when it is for his hurt,¹ I regard as a holy and pious action. So mount the dais, please, and answer the questions I put to you.

Against Eratosthenes, who had been One of the Thirty: Spoken by Lysias Himself. Lysias. W.R.M. Lamb (Translator). London. 1930.

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κατὰ Ερατοσθένους τοῦ γενομένου τῶν τριάκοντα, ὃν αὐτὸς εἶπε Λυσίας Perseus (Lysias. Lamb, W.R.M., editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930.) — 24 focus

[24] ἀναβιβασάμενος δʼ αὐτὸν βούλομαι ἐρέσθαι, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί. τοιαύτην γὰρ γνώμην ἔχω· ἐπὶ μὲν τῇ τούτου ὠφελείᾳ καὶ πρὸς ἕτερον περὶ τούτου διαλέγεσθαι ἀσεβὲς εἶναι νομίζω, ἐπὶ δὲ τῇ τούτου βλάβῃ καὶ πρὸς αὐτὸν τοῦτον ὅσιον καὶ εὐσεβές. ἀνάβηθι οὖν μοι καὶ ἀπόκριναι, ὅ τι ἄν σε ἐρωτῶ.

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Against Eratosthenes, who had been One of the Thirty: Spoken by Lysias Himself

1. There was risk of pollution in addressing an unpurified murderer; cf. Aesch. Eum. 448 ; Eur. Orest. 75 .

Lysias Against Eratosthenes, who had been One of the Thirty: Spoken by Lysias Himself 24

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