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[7] τοιγάρτοι θαυμαστὸν οὐδὲν ἔφησεν αὐτοὺς ποιεῖν, εἰ θεοὺς μὲν ἐπιορκήσαντες, ἡγεμόνας δὲ καταλιπόντες, πόλιν δ᾽ ἔρημον τὸ καθ᾽ ἑαυτοὺς εἶναι μέρος ἀφέντες, ἐπὶ δὲ πίστεως συγχύσει καὶ νόμων ἀνατροπῇ καὶ πολιτεύματος πατρίου φθορᾷ ποιησάμενοι τὴν κάθοδον, οὐ μετριάζουσιν οὐδὲ χρηστοὺς δύνανται πολίτας ἑαυτοὺς παρασχεῖν, ἀλλ᾽ αἰεί τινος ὀρέγονται πλεονεξίας καὶ παρανομίας, τοτὲ μὲν ἀρχὰς ἐξεῖναι σφίσιν ἀξιοῦντες αὐτοὺς ἐφ᾽ ἑαυτῶν ἀποδεικνύναι, καὶ ταύτας ἀνυπευθύνους ποιοῦντες καὶ παναγεῖς: τοτὲ δ᾽ εἰς ἀγῶνας ὑπὲρ τῶν ἐσχάτων κινδύνων καθιστάντες οὓς αὐτοῖς δόξειε τῶν πατρικίων, καὶ τὰ νόμιμα δικαστήρια, οἷς περὶ θανάτου καὶ φυγῆς ἡ πόλις πρότερον ἔδωκε κρίνειν, μεταφέροντες ἐκ τῆς καθαρωτάτης φυλῆς ἐπὶ τὸν ῥυπαρώτατον ὄχλον: τοτὲ δὲ νόμους εἰσφέροντες οἱ θῆτες καὶ ἀνέστιοι κατὰ τῶν εὐπατριδῶν τυραννικοὺς καὶ ἀνίσους, καὶ οὐδὲ τοῦ προβουλεῦσαι περὶ αὐτῶν ἐξουσίαν τῇ βουλῇ καταλείποντες, ἀλλ᾽ ἀφαιρούμενοι καὶ ταύτην αὐτῆς τὴν [p. 353] τιμήν, ἣν ἐκ τοῦ παντὸς εἶχεν ἀναμφίλεκτον χρόνου,
Dionysii Halicarnasei Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt, Vol I-IV. Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885. Keyboarding.
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