Lysias, Against Agoratus: In Pursuance of a Writ, ed. W.R.M. Lamb, 86

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[86] δοκοῦσι δʼ ἔμοιγε οἱ ἕνδεκα οἱ παραδεξάμενοι τὴν ἀπαγωγὴν ταύτην, οὐκ¹ οἰόμενοι Ἀγοράτῳ συμπράττειν καὶ τότε διισχυριζομένῳ,² σφόδρα ὀρθῶς ποιῆσαι Διονύσιον τὴν ἀπαγωγὴν ἀπάγοντʼ³ ἀναγκάζοντες τό γε⁴ προσγράψασθαι ἐπʼ αὐτοφώρῳ· ἢ πῶς οὐκ ἂν εἴη⁵ ὃς⁶ πρῶτον μὲν ἐναντίον πεντακοσίων ἐν τῇ βουλῇ,⁷ εἶτα πάλιν ἐναντίον Ἀθηναίων ἁπάντων ἐν τῷ δήμῳ⁸ ἀπογράψας τινὰς ἀποκτείνειε καὶ αἴτιος γένοιτο τοῦ θανάτου;

Against Agoratus: In Pursuance of a Writ. Lysias. ed. W.R.M. Lamb. London. 1930.

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κατὰ Ἀγοράτου ἐνδείξεως (Greek) (Lysias. Lamb, W.R.M., editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930.)

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Against Agoratus Perseus (Lysias. Lamb, W.R.M., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930.) — 86 focus

[86] But, in my view, the Eleven who authorized this arrest, without a thought of supporting Agoratus’s plea,—on which he was even then insisting,—were quite correct in compelling Dionysius, who sought the warrant for arrest, to add the words in the act: surely that must be so, in dealing with a man who, first before five hundred, and then again before the whole body of the Athenians, made depositions whereby he took the lives of some of them, and thus was responsible for their death.

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Against Agoratus: In Pursuance of a Writ

1. οὐκ add. Taylor

2. καὶ τότε διισχυριζομένῳ Kocks: τότε καὶ διισχυριζόμενοι.

3. ἀπάγοντʼ Falk: ἀπάγειν MSS.

4. τό γε Sluiter: τότε MSS.

5. πῶς οὐκ ἂν εἴη Sauppe: ὄπου ἂν ἦ.

6. ὃς add. Gebauer

7. ἐν τῇ βουλῇ et ἐν τῷ δήμῳ del. Kayser

8. ἐν τῇ βουλῇ et ἐν τῷ δήμῳ del. Kayser

Lysias Against Agoratus: In Pursuance of a Writ 86

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