Demosthenes an Encomium

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İngilizce

46 But if the island empire and the sea may not save me, I ask my safety from the Posidon at whose altar and under whose sanctuary I-stand. And if Posidon’s power avails not to keep bis temple inviolate, if he scorns not to surrender Demosthenes ta Archias, then welcome death; I will not transfer my worship to Antipater. I might have had Macedonia more at my devotion than Athens, might be now a partaker in your fortunes, if I would have ranged myself with Callimedon, and Pytheas, and Demades. When things were far gone, I might yet have made a shift, if I had not had respect to the daughters of Erechtheus and to Codrus. Fortune might desert, I would not follow her; for death is a haven of safety, which he who reaches will do no baseness more. Archias, I will not be at this late day a stain upon the name of Athens; I will not make choice of slavery; be my winding-sheet the white one of liberty.