Lysias, On the Murder of Eratosthenes, section 30

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Funeral Oration

Against Simon: Defense

On A Wound By Premeditation

Against Andocides

Defense in the Matter of the Olive Stump

Accusation of Calumny

For The Soldier

Against Theomnestus 1

Against Theomnestus 2

Against Eratosthenes

Against Agoratus

Against Alcibiades 1

Against Alcibiades 2

In Defense of Mantitheus

On The Property Of Eraton

On The Property Of The Brother Of Nicias: Peroration

On the Property of Aristophanes

For Polystratus

Defence Against A Charge Of Taking Bribes

Against The Corn-Dealers

Against Pancleon

On The Refusal Of A Pension

Defense Against a Charge of Subverting the Democracy

On the Scrutiny of Evandros

Against Epicrates and his Fellow-envoys

Against Ergocles

Against Philocrates

Against Nicomachus

Against Diogeiton

Olympic Oration

Against The Subversion of the Ancestral Constitution

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Read out also, please, that law from the pillar in the Areopagus.“Law”

You hear, sirs, how the Court of the Areopagus itself, to which has been assigned, in our own as in our fathers' time, the trial of suits for murder, has expressly stated that whoever takes this vengeance on an adulterer caught in the act with his spouse shall not be convicted of murder.

Lysias. Lysias with an English translation by W.R.M. Lamb, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.

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