Lysias, Against Philon, On his Scrutiny, ed. W.R.M. Lamb, 32

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[32] ὁρῶ δέ τινας οἳ νῦν μὲν τούτῳ παρασκευάζονται βοηθεῖν καὶ δεῖσθαι ὑμῶν, ἐπειδὴ ἐμὲ οὐκ ἐδύναντο πεῖσαι· τότε δέ, ὅτε οἱ κίνδυνοι μὲν ὑμῖν καὶ οἱ μέγιστοι ἀγῶνες ἦσαν, τὰ δὲ ἆθλα αὐτὴ ἡ πολιτεία ἔκειτο, καὶ ἔδει οὐ μόνον περὶ τοῦ βουλεύειν ἀλλὰ καὶ περὶ τῆς ἐλευθερίας ἀγωνίζεσθαι,¹ τότε οὐκ ἐδέοντο αὐτοῦ βοηθῆσαι καὶ ὑμῖν καὶ κοινῇ τῇ πόλει, καὶ μὴ προδοῦναι μήτε τὴν πατρίδα μήτε τὴν βουλήν, ἧς νῦν ἀξιοῖ τυχεῖν οὐ μετὸν αὐτῷ, ἄλλων γε κατεργασαμένων.

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.) — 32 focus

[32] I see certain persons who are preparing today to support him and to plead with you, since they were not able to seduce me; but in those days of your dangers and sorest struggles, when the constitution itself was at stake and you had to contend not merely for seats on the Council but for freedom itself, they did not plead with him then to support both you and the commonwealth, and to betray neither his country nor the Council, to which he now demands admission without any right, since our success was achieved by others.

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Against Philon, On his Scrutiny

1. ἀγωνίζεσθαι Frohberger: βούλεσθαι, βουλεύεσθαι MSS.

Lysias Against Philon, On his Scrutiny 32

ed. W.R.M. Lamb

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