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κατὰ τοῦ Μαρκίου ψῆφον, ἀλλὰ μάλιστα μὲν δι᾽ αὐτὸν ἀφεῖναι τῆς δίκης τὸν ἄνδρα ἀναμιμνησκομένους, οἷος εἰς τὰ κοινὰ ἐγένετο καὶ ὅσους κατώρθωσεν ὑπὲρ τῆς κοινῆς ἐλευθερίας τε καὶ ἡγεμονίας πολέμους, καὶ ὡς οὔτε ὅσια οὔτε δίκαια οὔτε προσήκοντα σφίσι ποιήσουσι, λόγων μὲν αὐτῷ μνησικακοῦντες φαύλων, ἔργων δ᾽ [4] ἀχαριστοῦντες καλῶν. εἶναι δὲ καὶ τὸν καιρὸν τῆς ἀφέσεως καλόν, ὅτε γ᾽ αὐτὸς ἥκει παρέχων τὸ σῶμα τοῖς διαφόροις καὶ στέρξων, ὅ τι ἂν ἐκεῖνοι περὶ αὐτοῦ διαγνῶσιν. εἰ δ᾽ οὐχ οἷοί τέ εἰσι διαλύσασθαι πρὸς ἐκεῖνον, ἀλλὰ χαλεπῶς καὶ ἀπαραιτήτως ἔχουσιν, ἐνθυμηθέντας, ὅτι ἡ βουλὴ δεησομένη περὶ αὐτοῦ πάρεισιν, ἄνδρες οἱ κράτιστοι τῆς πόλεως τριακόσιοι, παθεῖν τι καὶ ἐπικλασθῆναι τὰς γνώμας, καὶ μὴ δι᾽ ἑνὸς ἐχθροῦ τιμωρίαν τοσούτων δέησιν ἀπώσασθαι φίλων, ἀλλὰ [p. 96] πολλῶν καὶ ἀγαθῶν ἀνδρῶν χάριτι δίκην ἀνδρὸς ἑνὸς ὑπεριδεῖν. ταῦτα καὶ παραπλήσια τούτοις εἰπὼν τελευταῖον
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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