Lysias, On the Property of Aristophanes: Against the Treasury, W.R.M. Lamb (Translator), 52

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[52] For I suppose you know that Alcibiades held command for four or five years¹ in succession, keeping the upper hand and winning victories over the Lacedaemonians: the cities thought well to give him twice as much as any other commander, so that some people supposed that he had more than a hundred talents. But when he died² he left evidence that this was not true: for he bequeathed a smaller fortune to his children than he had inherited himself from his guardians.

On the Property of Aristophanes: Against the Treasury. Lysias. W.R.M. Lamb (Translator). London. 1930.

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[52] ἐπεὶ οἴομαι ὑμᾶς εἰδέναι ὅτι Ἀλκιβιάδης τέτταρα ἢ πέντε ἔτη ἐφεξῆς ἐστρατήγει ἐπικρατῶν καὶ νενικηκὼς Λακεδαιμονίους, καὶ διπλάσια ἐκείνῳ ἠξίουν αἱ πόλεις διδόναι ἢ ἄλλῳ τινὶ τῶν στρατηγῶν, ὥστʼ ᾤοντο εἶναί τινες αὐτῷ πλεῖν ἢ ἑκατὸν τάλαντα. ὁ δʼ ἀποθανὼν ἐδήλωσεν ὅτι οὐκ ἀληθῆ ταῦτα ἦν· ἐλάττω γὰρ οὐσίαν κατέλιπε τοῖς παισὶν ἢ αὐτὸς παρὰ τῶν ἐπιτροπευσάντων παρέλαβεν.

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On the Property of Aristophanes: Against the Treasury

1. 411-407 B.C.

2. He was murdered in Phrygia , 404 B.C.

Lysias On the Property of Aristophanes: Against the Treasury 52

W.R.M. Lamb (Translator)

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