Λυκοῦργος

Sections

1.1 – 1.2 1.3 – 1.4 2.1 – 2.2 2.3 – 3.2 3.3 – 3.4 3.5 – 4.1 4.2 – 4.4 4.5 – 5.2 5.3 – 5.4 5.5 – 5.6 5.7 – 5.8 6.1 – 6.2 6.3 – 6.3 6.4 – 7.1 7.2 – 7.3 8.1 – 8.3 8.4 – 9.1 9.2 – 9.3 9.4 – 10.1 10.2 – 10.3 11.1 – 11.2 11.3 – 11.4 12.1 – 12.3 12.4 – 12.5 12.6 – 12.7 13.1 – 13.3 13.4 – 13.6 14.1 – 14.2 14.3 – 14.4 15.1 – 15.2 15.3 – 15.4 15.5 – 15.7 15.8 – 15.9 15.10 – 16.1 16.2 – 16.3 16.4 – 16.5 16.6 – 17.1 17.2 – 17.3 17.4 – 18.1 18.2 – 18.3 18.4 – 19.1 19.2 – 19.4 20.1 – 20.3 20.4 – 20.6 21.1 – 21.3 21.4 – 22.1 22.2 – 22.4 22.5 – 23.1 23.2 – 24.1 24.2 – 24.4 25.1 – 25.3 25.4 – 25.5 26.1 – 26.2 26.3 – 26.4 27.1 – 27.2 27.3 – 28.1 28.2 – 28.3 28.4 – 28.5 28.6 – 29.1 29.2 – 29.3 29.4 – 29.5 29.6 – 30.1 30.2 – 30.3 30.4 – 30.5 30.6 – 31.1 31.2 – 31.3 31.4 – 31.5

İngilizce Yunanca

5.5 When the tumult began, King Charilaüs, fearing that the whole affair was a conspiracy against himself, fled for refuge to the Brazen HouseA temple of Athena. but he was soon convinced of his error, and having exacted oaths for his safety from the agitators, left his place of refuge, and even joined them in their enterprise, being of a gentle and yielding disposition, so much so, indeed, that Archelaüs, his royal colleague, is said to have remarked to those who were extolling the young king, How can Charilaüs be a good man, when he has no severity even for the bad?

5.6 Among the many innovations which Lycurgus made, the first and most important was his institution of a senate, or Council of Elders, which, as Plato says, Laws, p. 691 e. by being blended with the feverish government of the kings, and by having an equal vote with them in matters of the highest importance, brought safety and due moderation into counsels of state. For before this the civil polity was veering and unsteady, inclining at one time to follow the kings towards tyranny, and at another to follow the multitude towards democracy;