Lysias, Defense Against a Charge of Subverting the Democracy, W.R.M. Lamb (Translator), 35

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nevertheless, when we see justice done upon the authors of your troubles, we remember your former experiences, and condone you; but when you show yourselves openly chastising the innocent along with the guilty, by the same vote you will be involving us all in suspicion.¹

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

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Defense Against a Charge of Subverting the Democracy (English) (Lysias. Lamb, W.R.M., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930.)

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[35] ὅταν μὲν ἴδωμεν τοὺς τῶν κακῶν αἰτίους δίκην διδόντας, τῶν τότε περὶ ὑμᾶς γεγενημένων μεμνημένοι συγγνώμην ἔχομεν, ὅταν δὲ φανεροὶ γένησθε τοὺς μηδὲν αἰτίους ἐξ ἴσου τοῖς ἀδικοῦσι τιμωρούμενοι, τῇ αὐτῇ ψήφῳ ἡμᾶς εἰς ὑπο ψίαν καταστήσετε¹ Concl

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Defense Against a Charge of Subverting the Democracy

1. The speaker seems to be accusing the democratic leaders of persecuting citizens who had shown oligarchic sympathies and who ought now to be protected by the oaths of concord that had been sworn by the two parties.

Lysias Defense Against a Charge of Subverting the Democracy 35

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