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οὐκοῦν σὺ μισθοφορὰν λέγεις; φήσει τις. καὶ παραχρῆμά γε τὴν αὐτὴν σύνταξιν ἁπάντων, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, ἵνα τῶν κοινῶν ἕκαστος τὸ μέρος λαμβάνων, ὅτου δέοιθ᾽ ἡ πόλις, τοῦθ᾽ ὑπάρχοι. ἔξεστιν ἄγειν ἡσυχίαν: οἴκοι μένων βελτίων, τοῦ δι᾽ ἔνδειαν ἀνάγκῃ τι ποιεῖν αἰσχρὸν ἀπηλλαγμένος. συμβαίνει τι τοιοῦτον οἷον καὶ τὰ νῦν: στρατιώτης αὐτὸς ὑπάρχων ἀπὸ τῶν αὐτῶν τούτων λημμάτων, ὥσπερ ἐστὶ δίκαιον ὑπὲρ τῆς πατρίδος. ἔστι τις ἔξω τῆς ἡλικίας ὑμῶν: ὅσ᾽ οὗτος ἀτάκτως νῦν λαμβάνων οὐκ ὠφελεῖ, ταῦτ᾽ ἐν ἴσῃ τάξει λαμβάνων πάντ᾽ ἐφορῶν καὶ διοικῶν ἃ χρὴ πράττεσθαι.
Demosthenes. Demosthenis.Orationes. ed. S. H. Butcher. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1903.
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