Lysias, On the Confiscation of the Property Of The Brother Of Nicias: Peroration, W.R.M. Lamb (Translator), 2

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[2] in all that he did for your common weal while using his own judgement, he will be found everywhere to have been the author of many benefits to the State, and to have inflicted a great number of grievous injuries on the enemy; but in all that he was compelled to do, not of his own wish but against his will, he bore no slight part of the injuries himself, while the responsibility for the disaster ought in fairness to lie with those who persuaded you,¹

On the Confiscation of the Property Of The Brother Of Nicias: Peroration. Lysias. W.R.M. Lamb (Translator). London. 1930.

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On the Confiscation of the Property Of The Brother Of Nicias (English) (Lysias. Lamb, W.R.M., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930.)

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[2] ἐκεῖνος γὰρ ὅσα μὲν τῇ ἑαυτοῦ γνώμῃ χρώμενος ὑπὲρ τοῦ ὑμετέρου ἔπραξε, πανταχοῦ φανήσεται πολλῶν μὲν καὶ¹ ἀγαθῶν αἴτιος τῇ πόλει γεγενημένος, πλεῖστα δὲ καὶ μέγιστα κακὰ τοὺς πολεμίους εἰργασμένος· ὅσα δὲ οὐ βουλόμενος ἀλλʼ ἄκων ἠναγκάσθη ποιῆσαι, τῶν μὲν κακῶν οὐκ ἐλάχιστον αὐτὸς μετέσχε μέρος, τὴν δʼ αἰτίαν τῆς συμφορᾶς οἱ πείσαντες ὑμᾶς δικαίως ἂν ἔχοιεν,

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On the Confiscation of the Property Of The Brother Of Nicias: Peroration

1. The reference is to the Sicilian expedition in 415 B.C., which Nicias had opposed; cf. Thuc. 6.8 ff.

Lysias On the Confiscation of the Property Of The Brother Of Nicias: Peroration 2

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