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καὶ μὴν οὐδ᾽ ἐκεῖν᾽ ὀκνήσω περὶ τῆς ἀξίας αὐτῆς πρὸς ὑμᾶς εἰπεῖν. ἐγὼ γὰρ οὐ τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον νομίζω πόλει τὸν ἄξιον ἐξεταστέον εἶναι καὶ ἰδιώτῃ: οὐδὲ γὰρ περὶ τῶν αὐτῶν ἡ σκέψις. ἰδίᾳ μὲν γὰρ ἕκαστος ἡμῶν σκοπεῖ τίς ἄξιός ἐστιν ἑκάστου κηδεστὴς ἢ τῶν τοιούτων τι γίγνεσθαι, ταῦτα δὲ καὶ νόμοις τισὶ καὶ δόξαις διώρισται: κοινῇ δ᾽ ἡ πόλις καὶ ὁ δῆμος, ὅστις ἂν αὐτὸν εὖ ποιῇ καὶ σῴζῃ, τοῦτο δ᾽ οὐ γένει καὶ δόξῃ κρινόμενον ἴδοι τις ἄν, ἀλλ᾽ ἔργῳ. ὅταν μὲν οὖν εὖ πάσχειν δέῃ, τὸν βουλόμενον εὖ ποιεῖν ἡμᾶς ἐάσομεν, ἐπειδὰν δὲ πάθωμεν, τότε τὴν ἀξίαν τοῦ ποιήσαντος σκεψόμεθα; οὐκ ἄρ᾽ ὀρθῶς βουλευσόμεθα.
Demosthenes. Demosthenis.Orationes. ed. S. H. Butcher. Oxonii.e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1903.
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