Lysias, Defense Against A Charge Of Taking Bribes: Undesignated, W.R.M. Lamb (Translator), 5

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[5]
I have won a victory with a warship in the race at Sunium,¹ spending fifteen minae; and besides I had the conduct of sacred missions and ceremonial processions² and other duties of the sort, for which my expenses have come to more than thirty minae. Of these sums that I have enumerated, had I chosen to limit my public services to the letter of the law, I should have spent not one quarter.

Defense Against A Charge Of Taking Bribes: Undesignated. Lysias. W.R.M. Lamb (Translator). London. 1930.

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Defense Against A Charge Of Taking Bribes (English) (Lysias. Lamb, W.R.M., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930.)

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ἀπολογία δωροδοκίας ἀπαράσημος Perseus (Lysias. Lamb, W.R.M., editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930.) — 5 focus

[5] νενίκηκα δὲ τριήρει μὲν ἁμιλλώμενος ἐπὶ Σουνίῳ, ἀναλώσας πεντεκαίδεκα μνᾶς· χωρὶς δὲ ἀρχιθεωρίας καὶ Ἐρρηφορίας καὶ ἄλλα τοιαῦτα, εἰς ἃ ἐμοὶ δεδαπάνηται πλέον ἢ τριάκοντα μναῖ. καὶ τούτων ὧν κατέλεξα, εἰ ἐβουλόμην κατὰ τὰ γεγραμμένα ἐν τῷ νόμῳ λῃτουργεῖν, οὐδʼ ἂν τὸ τέταρτον μέρος ἀνήλωσα. τὸν δὲ χρόνον ὃν ἐτριηράρχουν,

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Defense Against A Charge Of Taking Bribes: Undesignated

1. A promontory in the south of Attica , on which there was a temple of Poseidon.

2. In this case, of maidens of the best families, who at the Panathenaea carried the sacred robe and other holy object as offerings to Athene.

Lysias Defense Against A Charge Of Taking Bribes: Undesignated 5

W.R.M. Lamb (Translator)

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