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ἀκούετ᾽, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, καὶ καταμανθάνετε, ὅτι ἐνταῦθ᾽ ἔνι καὶ τοὺς ἀξίους ἔχειν τὰ δοθέντα καὶ τοὺς μὴ τοιούτους κριθέντας, ἐὰν ἀδίκως τι λάβωσιν, ἀφαιρεθῆναι, καὶ τὸ λοιπὸν ἐφ᾽ ὑμῖν εἶναι πάνθ᾽, ὥσπερ ἐστὶ δίκαιον, καὶ δοῦναι καὶ μή. ὡς μὲν τοίνυν οὐχὶ καλῶς οὗτος ἔχει καὶ δικαίως ὁ νόμος, οὔτ᾽ ἐρεῖν οἴομαι Λεπτίνην οὔτ᾽, ἐὰν λέγῃ, δεῖξαι δυνήσεσθαι: ἃ δὲ πρὸς τοῖς θεσμοθέταις ἔλεγεν, ταῦτ᾽ ἴσως λέγων παράγειν ὑμᾶς ζητήσει. ἔφη γὰρ ἐξαπάτης εἵνεκα παραγεγράφθαι τοῦτον τὸν νόμον, ἐὰν δ᾽ ὃν αὐτὸς ἔθηκεν λυθῇ, τοῦτον οὐ τεθήσεσθαι.

Demosthenes. Demosthenis.Orationes. ed. S. H. Butcher. Oxonii.e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1903.

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    • Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus, 1267
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