This text is part of:
Click on a word to bring up parses, dictionary entries, and frequency statistics
[3]
ἐβουλόμην δ᾽ ἄν, ὦ ἄνδρες, ὥσπερ ὠφέλιμόν ἐστι τῇ πόλει εἶναι τοὺς
κρίνοντας ἐν ταύτῃ τοὺς παρανομοῦντας, οὕτω καὶ φιλάνθρωπον αὐτὸ παρὰ τοῖς
πολλοῖς ὑπειλῆφθαι: νῦν δὲ περιέστηκεν εἰς τοῦτο, ὥστε τὸν ἰδίᾳ
κινδυνεύοντα καὶ ὑπὲρ τῶν κοινῶν ἀπεχθανόμενον οὐ1 φιλόπολιν ἀλλὰ φιλοπράγμονα δοκεῖν εἶναι, οὐ δικαίως οὐδὲ συμφερόντως
τῇ πόλει. τρία γάρ ἐστι τὰ μέγιστα ἃ διαφυλάττει καὶ διασῴζει τὴν
δημοκρατίαν καὶ τὴν τῆς πόλεως εὐδαιμονίαν,
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.