Lysias, Olympic Oration, W.R.M. Lamb (Translator), 3

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[3] The project of it, then, was his; and so I have not come here to talk trivialities or to wrangle over words: I take that to be the business of utterly futile professors in straits for a livelihood; but I think it behoves a man of principle and civic worth to be giving his counsel on the weightiest questions, when I see Greece in this shameful plight, with many parts of her held subject by the foreigner, and many of her cities ravaged by despots.¹

Olympic Oration. Lysias. W.R.M. Lamb (Translator). London. 1930.

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[3] ἐκεῖνος μὲν οὖν ταῦθʼ ὑφηγήσατο, ἐγὼ δὲ ἥκω οὐ μικρολογησόμενος οὐδὲ περὶ τῶν ὀνομάτων μαχούμενος. ἡγοῦμαι γὰρ ταῦτα ἔργα μὲν εἶναι σοφιστῶν¹ λίαν ἀχρήστων² καὶ σφόδρα βίου δεομένων, ἀνδρὸς δὲ ἀγαθοῦ καὶ πολίτου πολλοῦ ἀξίου περὶ τῶν μεγίστων συμβουλεύειν, ὁρῶν οὕτως αἰσχρῶς διακειμένην τὴν Ἑλλάδα, καὶ πολλὰ μὲν αὐτῆς ὄντα ὑπὸ τῷ βαρβάρῳ, πολλὰς δὲ πόλεις ὑπὸ τυράννων ἀναστάτους γεγενημένας. καὶ ταῦτα εἰ μὲν διʼ ἀσθένειαν ἐπάσχομεν,

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1. Cf. Lys. 2.59 .

Lysias Olympic Oration 3

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