Thesauros Edebiyat Hitabet Κατὰ Λεωκράτους

Κατὰ Λεωκράτους

Κατὰ Λεωκράτους Lycurgus ca. 390-ca. 324 B.C
60 Had the city been betrayed by them it would have been inhabited though enslaved, but left as this man left it, it would have been deserted. Moreover, after suffering hardships cities may well expect to see a change to better times, but with complete destruction even the hopes common to every city are taken from them. A man, if he but lives, has still a prospect of change from evil fortunes, but at his death there perishes with him every means by which prosperity could come. And so it is with cities; their misfortune reaches its limit when they are destroyed.
61 Indeed, the plain fact is that for a city destruction is like death. Let us take the clearest illustration. Our city was enslavedBy the Pisistratids from c. 560 to 510 and by the Thirty from 404 to 403. The walls were destroyed in 404. in earlier times by the tyrants and later by the Thirty, when the walls were demolished by the Spartans. Yet we were freed from both these evils and the Greeks approved us as the guardians of their welfare.

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