Lysias, On The Refusal Of A Pension to the Invalid, W.R.M. Lamb (Translator), 25

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[25] That is not the sort of use I happen to make of such means of subsistence as I have. That I am grossly insolent and savage? Even he would not allege this himself, except he should wish to add one more to the series of his lies. Or that I was in power at the time of the Thirty, and oppressed a great number of the citizens? But I went into exile with your people to Chalcis ,¹ and when I was free to live secure as a citizen with those persons² I chose to depart and share your perils.

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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[25] ἀλλʼ οὐ τοιαύταις ἀφορμαῖς τοῦ βίου πρὸς τὰ τοιαῦτα τυγχάνω χρώμενος. ἀλλʼ ὅτι λίαν ὑβριστὴς καὶ βίαιος; ἀλλʼ οὐδʼ ἂν αὐτὸς φήσειεν, εἰ μὴ βούλοιτο καὶ τοῦτο ψεύδεσθαι τοῖς ἄλλοις ὁμοίως. ἀλλʼ ὅτι ἐπὶ τῶν τριάκοντα γενόμενος ἐν δυνάμει κακῶς ἐποίησα πολλοὺς τῶν πολιτῶν; ἀλλὰ μετὰ τοῦ ὑμετέρου πλήθους ἔφυγον εἰς Χαλκίδα τὴν ἐπʼ Εὐρίπῳ,¹ καὶ ἐξόν μοι μετʼ ἐκείνων ἀδεῶς πολιτεύεσθαι, μεθʼ ὑμῶν εἱλόμην κινδυνεύειν ἀπελθών.²

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On The Refusal Of A Pension to the Invalid

1. In Euboea , 404 B.C.

2. i.e., the Thirty.

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