Κατὰ Λεωκράτους

Sections

hyp – 1 2 – 3 4 – 6 7 – 8 9 – 10 11 – 13 14 – 15 16 – 17 18 – 19 20 – 21 21 – 22 23 – 25 25 – 25 26 – 26 27 – 29 29 – 29 30 – 32 33 – 35 36 – 38 39 – 41 42 – 43 44 – 46 47 – 49 50 – 51 52 – 53 54 – 55 56 – 57 58 – 59 60 – 61 62 – 63 64 – 65 66 – 67 68 – 69 70 – 70 71 – 71 72 – 72 73 – 74 75 – 76 77 – 77 77 – 77 77 – 78 79 – 80 81 – 83 84 – 85 86 – 88 89 – 91 92 – 93 94 – 96 97 – 98 99 – 99 100 – 100 101 – 102 103 – 104 105 – 106 107 – 107 108 – 108 109 – 109 110 – 111 112 – 113 114 – 116 117 – 119 120 – 121 122 – 123 124 – 126 126 – 127 128 – 128 129 – 130 130 – 132 133 – 134 135 – 136 137 – 138 139 – 139 140 – 141 142 – 143 144 – 146 146 – 147 148 – 149 150 – 150

İngilizce Yunanca

58 Personally I know no help to equal this. He deserves your anger for this conduct and for his explanation too, since he has not hesitated to tell a blatant lie. For he never previously carried on this trade, being in fact a master smith; and subsequently, after his departure, he imported nothing to us from Megara, though he was away for six years without a break. Besides, he had, as it happens, an interest in the two per cent tax,For the two per cent tax see Lyc. 1.19 and note. which he would never have left to live abroad on business. So if he says a word about these matters, I do not doubt that you will stop him.

59 He will perhaps in his impetuosity raise the argument, suggested to him by certain of his advocates, that he is not liable on a charge of treason, since he was not responsible for dockyards, gates or camps nor in fact for any of the city’s concerns. My own view is that those in charge of these positions could have betrayed a part of your defences only, whereas it was the whole city which Leocrates surrendered. Again, it is the living only whom men of their kind harm, but Leocrates has wronged the dead as well, depriving them of their ancestral rites.