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‘5. αὕτη μὲν ἡ τῶν δήμων κατάστασις, ἐν δὲ δὴ
ταῖς τυραννίσι πάντα τἀναντία συμβαίνει. καὶ
τὰ μὲν πολλὰ τί δεῖ μηκύνειν λέγοντα; τὸ δὲ δὴ
κεφάλαιον, χρηστὸν μὲν οὐδεὶς οὐδὲν οὔτ᾽ εἰδέναι
οὔτ᾽ ἔχειν δοκεῖν βούλεται ῾πολέμιον γὰρ αὐτῷ
πᾶν ἐπὶ τούτῳ τὸ κρατοῦν ὡς πλήθει γίγνεταἰ,
[2]
τὸν δὲ ἐκείνου τις τρόπον κανόνα τοῦ βίου
ποιησάμενος, ὅ τι ποτ᾽ ἂν ἐλπίσῃ δι᾽ αὐτοῦ
πλεονεκτήσας ἀκινδύνως κερδανεῖν, μετέρχεται.
καὶ διὰ τοῦθ᾽ οἱ πλείους σφῶν τό τε καθ᾽ ἑαυτοὺς 1
μόνον σπεύδουσι καὶ πάντας τοὺς ἄλλους μισοῦσι,
τάς τε εὐπραγίας αὐτῶν οἰκείας ζημίας
καὶ τὰς συμφορὰς ἴδια κέρδη ποιούμενοι.
[3]
τοιούτων δὲ δὴ τούτων ὄντων οὐχ ὁρῶ τί ποτ᾽
ἂν εἰκότως ἐπάρειέ σε μοναρχῆσαι ἐπιθυμῆσαι.
πρὸς γὰρ τῷ τοῖς δήμοις χαλεπὸν εἶναι τὸ πολίτευμα,
πολὺ δυσχερέστερον αὐτῷ σοι γένοιτο ἄν.
[p. 88]
ἢ οὐχ ὁρᾷς ὅπως ἥ τε πόλις καὶ τὰ πράγματα
[4]
αὐτῆς ἔτι καὶ νῦν ταράττεται; καὶ χαλεπὸν μέν
ἐστι τὸ τὸν ὅμιλον ἡμῶν, τοσούτοις ἔτεσιν ἐν
ἐλευθερίᾳ βεβιωκότα, καταλῦσαι, χαλεπὸν δὲ καὶ
τὸ τοὺς συμμάχους τούς τε ὑπηκόους, τοὺς μὲν
ἀπὸ παλαιοῦ δημοκρατουμένους τοὺς δ᾽ ὑφ᾽ ἡμῶν
αὐτῶν ἠλευθερωμένους, ἐς δουλείαν αὖθις καταστῆσαι,
τοσούτων πέριξ πολεμίων ἡμῖν προσκειμένων.
’
1 At this point a #3uaternion (containing the chapters dosn to 20, 4) is missing from M. L', the copy of M, here becomes of importance, since the scribe filled the lacuna in M from L, shich sas then complete. See vol. i. p. xxv.
Dio's Roman History. Cassius Dio Cocceianus. Earnest Cary. Herbert Baldwin Foster. William Heinemann, Harvard University Press. London; New York. 1914-. Keyboarding.
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