Lysias, Against Nicomachus, ed. W.R.M. Lamb, 21

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Μάρτυρες

ἐνθυμεῖσθε τοίνυν, ὧ ἄνδρες δικασταί, ὅτι, ὅταν μὲν κατὰ τὰς συγγραφὰς ποιῶμεν, ἅπαντα τὰ πάτρια θύεται, ἐπειδὰν δὲ κατὰ τὰς στήλας ἃς οὗτος ἀνέγραψε, πολλὰ τῶν ἱερῶν καταλύεται. κἀν¹ τούτοις ὁ ἱερόσυλος περιτρέχει, λέγων ὡς εὐσέβειαν ἀλλʼ οὐκ εὐτέλειαν ἀνέγραψε· καὶ εἰ μὴ ταῦτα ὑμῖν ἀρέσκει, ἐξαλείφειν κελεύει, καὶ ἐκ τούτων οἴεται πείθειν ὡς οὐδὲν ἀδικεῖ· ὃς ἐν δυοῖν μὲν ἐτοῖν πλείω ἤδη τοῦ δέοντος δώδεκα ταλάντοις ἀνήλωσε, παρʼ ἕκαστον δὲ τὸν ἐνιαυτὸν ἐπεχείρησεν ἓξ ταλάντοις τὴν πόλιν ζημιῶσαι,

Against Nicomachus. Lysias. ed. W.R.M. Lamb. London. 1930.

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κατὰ Νικομάχου γραμματέως εὐθυνῶν κατηγορία (Greek) (Lysias. Lamb, W.R.M., editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930.)

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Against Nicomachus Perseus (Lysias. Lamb, W.R.M., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930.) — 21 focus

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Witnesses

Reflect, therefore, gentlemen of the jury, that when we proceed in accordance with the regulations, all the ancestral offerings are made; but when we are guided by the pillars as copied by this man, numerous rites are abolished.¹ Whereupon the sacrilegious wretch runs about saying that his transcription was piety and not parsimony, and that if you do not approve of his work you had better erase it: by this means he thinks to persuade you of his innocence. Yet in two years he has managed to spend twelve talents more than was necessary,

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Against Nicomachus

1. κἀν Hude: καὶ MSS.

Lysias Against Nicomachus 21

ed. W.R.M. Lamb

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