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ἡ μὲν ὑπὲρ τῆς σιτοδείας ἀπολογία πάνυ βραχεῖά ἐστιν, ὦ δημόται, καὶ οὐκ ἄλλους τινὰς παρεξόμεθα ὧν ἂν λέγωμεν ἢ ὑμᾶς μάρτυρας. τήν τε γὰρ ἀφορίαν τῶν σιτικῶν καρπῶν ἐπίστασθε δήπου καὶ αὐτοὶ διὰ τὸν ἐκλειφθέντα σπόρον γενομένην: τήν τ᾽ ἄλλην καταφθορὰν τῆς χώρας οὐ παρ᾽ ἑτέρων ὑμᾶς δεῖ μαθεῖν, ἀφ᾽ ἧς αἰτίας συνέβη,. καὶ ὡς τελευτῶσα ἡ πλείστη τε καὶ ἀρίστη γὴ πάντων ἐσπάνικε καρπῶν τε καὶ ἀνδραπόδων καὶ βοσκημάτων τὰ μὲν ὑπὸ τῶν πολεμίων διαρπαζομένη, τὰ δ᾽ ὑμῖν μὴ ἐπιχορηγοῦσα τοσούτοις οὖσι καὶ μηδεμίαν ἄλλην ἀποστροφὴν ἔχουσιν. [2] ὥστ᾽ οὐκ ἐξ ὧν οἱ δημαγωγοὶ διαβάλλουσιν, ἀλλ᾽ ἐξ ὧν αὐτοὶ ἴστε, τὸν λιμὸν ἡγούμενοι γεγονέναι παύσασθε προσάπτοντες ἐπιβουλὴν ἡμετέραν τῷ πάθει καὶ [3] δἰ ὀργῆς ἔχοντες ἡμᾶς οὐθὲν ἀδικοῦντας. αἱ δ᾽ ἀποστολαὶ τῶν κληρούχων ἐκ τοῦ ἀναγκαίου ἐγένοντο, κοινῇ δόξαν ὑμῖν ἅπασι διὰ φυλακῆς ἔχειν χωρία εἰς πόλεμον ἐπιτήδεια, καὶ μεγάλα ὤνησαν ἐν καιρῷ σφόδρα ἀναγκαίῳ γενόμεναι τούς τ᾽ ἐξιόντας καὶ τοὺς ὑπολειπομένους ὑμῶν. οἱ μὲν γὰρ ἀφθονωτέρων εὐποροῦσιν [p. 44] ἐκεῖ τῶν ἐπιτηδείων: οἱ δ᾽ ἐνθάδε ὑπομείναντες ἧττον σπανίζουσι τῆς ἀγορᾶς: ἥ τ᾽ ἰσομοιρία τῆς τύχης ἧς μετέσχομεν ὑμῖν τοῖς δημοτικοῖς οἱ πατρίκιοι κλήρῳ ποιησάμενοι τὴν ἔξοδον, οὐ ψέγεται.
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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