Lysias, Against Philon, On his Scrutiny, ed. W.R.M. Lamb, 26

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[26] ὅτι εἰ μέν τις φρούριόν τι προὔδωκεν ἢ ναῦν ἢ στρατόπεδόν τι, ἐν ᾧ μέρος τι ἐτύγχανε τῶν πολιτῶν ὄν, ταῖς ἐσχάταις ἂν ζημίαις ἐζημιοῦτο, οὗτος δὲ προδοὺς ὅλην τὴν πόλιν οὐχ ὅπως μὴ¹ τιμωρηθήσεται ἀλλὰ καὶ ὅπως τιμήσεται² παρασκευάζεται. καίτοι δικαίως γʼ ἄν, ὅστις φανερῶς ὥσπερ οὗτος προὔδωκε τὴν ἐλευθερίαν, οὐ περὶ τοῦ βουλεύειν ἀλλὰ περὶ τοῦ δουλεύειν καὶ τῆς μεγίστης τιμωρίας ἀγωνίζοιτο.³

Against Philon, On his Scrutiny. Lysias. ed. W.R.M. Lamb. London. 1930.

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

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Against Philon Perseus (Lysias. Lamb, W.R.M., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930.) — 26 focus

[26] And this further point is worthy of your attention,—that whereas anyone who had betrayed a fort or a ship or an army which happened to have in it some part of our people, would be visited with the extreme penalty, this man, who has betrayed the whole city, is planning not merely to escape requital but even to obtain honor! But surely anyone who has betrayed liberty in the flagrant manner of this man deserves to be faced with a judgement awarding him, not a seat on the Council, but slavery and the heaviest punishment.

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Against Philon, On his Scrutiny

1. μὴ add. Reiske.

2. ἀλλὰ καὶ ὅπως τιμηθήσεται τιμήσεται ξοβετ add. Reiske.

3. τιμωρίας Dobree, ἀγωνίζοιτο Rauchenstein: ἀπορίας ἐκκλησιάζεται, ἐκκλησιάζοιτο MSS.

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