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. ὑμεῖς δὲ ἀνάσχεσθέ μου, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, πρὸς ὀλίγον τὰ ἐν τῇ τυραννίδι καίπερ εἰδόσιν ὑμῖν ἀκριβῶς διηγουμένου: καὶ γὰρ τὸ μέγεθος
οὕτω μάθοιτ᾽ ἂν τῆς εὐεργεσίας τῆς ἐμῆς, καὶ αὐτοὶ μᾶλλον εὐφρανεῖσθε λογιζόμενοι ὧν ἀπηλλάγητε.
οὐ γὰρ ὥσπερ ἄλλοις τισὶν ἤδη συνέβη πολλάκις,
ἁπλῆν καὶ ἡμεῖς τυραννίδα καὶ μίαν δουλείαν ὑπεμείναμεν, οὐδὲ ἑνὸς ὑπηνέγκαμεν ἐπιθυμίαν δεσπότου, ἀλλὰ μόνοι τῶν πώποτε τὰ ὅμοια δυστυχησάντων δύο ἀνθ᾽ ἑνὸς τυράννους εἴχομεν
[p. 448] καὶ πρὸς διττὰ οἱ δυστυχεῖς ἀδικήματα διῃρούμεθα. μετριώτερος δὲ ὁ πρεσβύτης ἦν παρὰ πολὺ καὶ πρὸς τὰς ὀργὰς ἠπιώτερος καὶ πρὸς τὰς κολάσεις ἀμβλύτερος καὶ πρὸς τὰς ἐπιθυμίας βραδύτερος, ὡς ἂν ἤδη τῆς ἡλικίας τὸ μὲν σφοδρότερον τῆς ὁρμῆς ἐπεχούσης, τὰς δὲ τῶν ἡδονῶν ὀρέξεις χαλιναγωγούσης. καὶ πρός γε τὴν ἀρχὴν τῶν ἀδικημάτων ὑπὸ τοῦ παιδὸς ἄκων προσῆχθαι ἐλέγετο, οὐ πάνυ τυραννικὸς αὐτὸς ὤν, ἀλλ᾽
εἴκων ἐκείνῳ: φιλότεκνος γὰρ ἐς ὑπερβολὴν ἐγένετο, ὡς ἔδειξεν, καὶ πάντα ὁ παῖς ἦν αὐτῷ
καὶ ἐκείνῳ ἐπείθετο καὶ ἠδίκει ὅσα κελεύοι καὶ ἐκόλαζεν οὓς προστάττοι καὶ πάντα ὑπηρέτει,
καὶ ὅλως ἐτυραννεῖτο ὑπ᾽ αὐτοῦ καὶ δορυφόρος τῶν τοῦ παιδὸς ἐπιθυμιῶν ἦν.
Lucian. Works. with an English Translation by. A. M. Harmon. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. 5.
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