Lysias, Defense Against a Charge of Subverting the Democracy, W.R.M. Lamb (Translator), 12

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Now I, gentlemen of the jury, never suffered any misfortune during that time,¹ either private or public, which could lead me, through eagerness to be relieved of present ills, to court a change in our system. I have equipped a warship five times, fought in four sea-battles, contributed to many war levies, and performed my other public services as amply as any citizen.

Defense Against a Charge of Subverting the Democracy. Lysias. W.R.M. Lamb (Translator). London. 1930.

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[12] ἐμοὶ τοίνυν, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, οὔτʼ ἰδίᾳ οὔτε δημοσίᾳ συμφορὰ ἐν ἐκείνῳ τῷ χρόνῳ οὐδεμία πώποτε ἐγένετο, ἀνθʼ ἧστινος ἂν προθυμούμενος τῶν παρόντων κακῶν ἀπαλλαγῆναι ἑτέρων ἐπεθύμουν πραγμάτων. τετριηράρχηκά¹ τε² γὰρ πεντάκις, καὶ τετράκις νεναυμάχηκα, καὶ εἰσφορὰς ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ πολλὰς εἰσενήνοχα, καὶ τἆλλα λελῃτούργηκα οὐδενὸς χεῖρον τῶν πολιτῶν.

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Defense Against a Charge of Subverting the Democracy

1. The six years between the restoration of the democracy in 410 B.C. and the tyranny of the Thirty in 404 B.C.

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