Lysias, On The Refusal Of A Pension to the Invalid, W.R.M. Lamb (Translator), 22

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[22] Do not be led by this man to deprive me of the sole benefit in my country of which fortune has granted me a share, nor let this one person prevail on you to withdraw now what you all agreed to grant me in the past. For, gentlemen, since Heaven had deprived us¹ of the chiefest things, the city voted us this pension, regarding the chances of evil and of good as the same for all alike.

On The Refusal Of A Pension to the Invalid. Lysias. W.R.M. Lamb (Translator). London. 1930.

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On The Refusal Of A Pension (English) (Lysias. Lamb, W.R.M., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930.)

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Πρὸς τὴν εἰσαγγελίαν περὶ τοῦ μὴ δίδοσθαι τῷ ἀδυνάτῳ ἀργύριον Perseus (Lysias. Lamb, W.R.M., editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930.) — 22 focus

[22] μηδʼ οὗ μόνου¹ μεταλαβεῖν ἔδωκεν ἡ μοι τῶν ἐν τῇ πατρίδι, τούτου διὰ τουτονὶ ἀποστερήσητέ με· μηδʼ ἃ πάλαι κοινῇ πάντες ἔδοτέ μοι, νῦν οὗτος εἷς ὢν πείσῃ πάλιν ὑμᾶς ἀφελέσθαι. ἐπειδὴ γὰρ, ὦ βουλή, τῶν μεγίστων ἀρχῶν² ὁ δαίμων ἀπεστέρησεν ἡμᾶς, ἡ πόλις ἡμῖν ἐψηφίσατο τοῦτο τὸ ἀργύριον, ἡγουμένη κοινὰς εἶναι τὰς τύχας τοῖς ἅπασι καὶ τῶν κακῶν καὶ τῶν ἀγαθῶν.

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On The Refusal Of A Pension to the Invalid

1. The speaker here solemnly appeals for himself as one of an unfortunate class.

Lysias On The Refusal Of A Pension to the Invalid 22

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