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περιῆν γὰρ ἄν σοι ταῦτα πράξαντι πρῶτον μὲν εὐσεβεῖ καὶ δικαίῳ λέγεσθαι, ἔπειτα συμβασιλεύειν ἐμοὶ καὶ πάσης μετέχειν τιμῆς, εὐεργέτην τε καὶ πατέρα καὶ σωτῆρα καὶ πάντα, ὅσα τιμιώτατα ὀνόματα ὑπ᾽ ἀνθρώπων ἐπὶ καλοῖς κεῖται πράγμασιν, ἀκούειν καὶ μὴ τέταρτον ἤδη τοῦτο καὶ τετταρακοστὸν ἔτος ἀποστερεῖν με τῶν ἐμῶν, οὔτε σώματος ἀναπήρου τυχόντα οὔτε διανοίας ἠλιθίου. ἔπειτ᾽ ἐρωτᾶν με τολμᾷς, τί παθὼν δεινὸν ἐχθρὸν ἡγοῦμαί σε καὶ διὰ τί [2] σου κατηγορῶ; σὺ μὲν οὖν ἀπόκριναί μοι, Τύλλιε, τίνος αἰτίας χάριν οὐκ ἀξιοῖς με τῶν τοῦ πάππου τιμῶν κληρονομεῖν καὶ τίνα πρόφασιν εὐπρεπῆ τῆς ἀποστερήσεως σκηπτόμενος; πότερον οὐχ ἡγούμενος ἐξ ἐκείνου γένους εἶναί με γνήσιον, ἀλλ᾽ ὑποβολιμαῖόν τινα καὶ νόθον; τί οὖν ἐπετρόπευες τὸν ἀλλότριον τοῦ γένους καὶ τὸν οἶκον ἀνδρωθέντι ἀπεδίδους; ἀλλ᾽ ἔτι νομίζων με ὀρφανὸν εἶναι παῖδα καὶ τὰ κοινὰ πράττειν ἀδύνατον, ὃς οὐ πολὺ ἀπέχω πεντηκονταετίας; κατάβαλε δὲ τὴν εἰρωνείαν τῶν ἀναισχύντων [p. 60] [3] ἐρωτημάτων καὶ παῦσαί ποτε ἤδη πονηρὸς ὤν: εἰ δὲ τι δίκαιον ἔχεις πρὸς ταῦτ᾽ εἰπεῖν, ἕτοιμός εἰμι τούτοις ἐπιτρέπειν δικασταῖς, ὧν οὐκ ἂν ἔχοις ἑτέρους εἰπεῖν ἄνδρας ἐν τῇ πόλει κρείττους: ἐὰν δ᾽ ἐντεῦθεν ἀποδιδράσκων, ὅπερ ἐστὶν ἀεί σοι ποιεῖν σύνηθες, ἐπὶ τὸν ἐκδημαγωγούμενον ὑπὸ σοῦ καταφεύγῃς ὄχλον, οὐκ ἐπιτρέψω σοι: παρεσκεύασμαι γὰρ ὡς καὶ τὰ δίκαια ἐρῶν καὶ εἰ μὴ πείθοιο τὰ βίαια πράξων.
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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