Funeral Oration, Lysias with an English translation by W.R.M. Lamb, M.A.; Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
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γενομένου δὲ τοῦ κινδύνου κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν χρόνον Ἀθηναῖοι μὲν ἐνίκων τῇ ναυμαχίᾳ,
Λακεδαιμόνιοι δέ, οὐ ταῖς ψυχαῖς ἐνδεεῖς γενόμενοι, ἀλλὰ τοῦ πλήθους ψευσθέντες καὶ οὓς
φυλάξειν ᾤοντο καὶ πρὸς οὓς κινδυνεύσειν ἔμελλον, διεφθάρησαν[*]διεφθάρησαν add
Jacobs οὐχ ἡττηθέντες τῶν ἐναντίων, ἀλλʼ ἀποθανόντες
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οὗπερ ἐτάχθησαν μάχεσθαι· τούτῳ δὲ τῷ τρόπῳ τῶν μὲν δυστυχησάντων, τῶν δὲ τῆς παρόδου
κρατησάντων, οἱ μὲν ἐπορεύοντο ἐπὶ τήνδε τὴν πόλιν, οἱ δʼ ἡμέτεροι πρόγονοι πυθόμενοι
μὲν τὴν γεγενημένην Λακεδαιμονίοις συμφοράν, ἀποροῦντες δὲ τοῖς περιεστηκόσι πράγμασιν,
εἰδότες δʼ ὅτι, εἰ μὲν κατὰ γῆν τοῖς βαρβάροις ἀπαντήσονται, ἐπιπλεύσαντες χιλίαις
ναυσὶν ἐρήμην τὴν πόλιν λήψονται, εἰ δὲ εἰς τὰς τριήρεις ἐμβήσονται, ὑπὸ τῆς πεζῆς
στρατιᾶς ἁλώσονται, ἀμφότερα δὲ οὐ δυνήσονται, ἀμύνασθαί τε καὶ φυλακὴν ἱκανὴν
καταλιπεῖν,
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δυοῖν δὲ προκειμένοιν, πότερον χρὴ τὴν πατρίδα ἐκλιπεῖν ἢ μετὰ τῶν βαρβάρων γενομένους
καταδουλώσασθαι τοὺς Ἕλληνας, ἡγησάμενοι κρεῖττον εἶναι μετʼ ἀρετῆς καὶ πενίας καὶ φυγῆς
ἐλευθερίαν ἢ μετʼ ὀνείδους καὶ πλούτου δουλείαν τῆς πατρίδος, ἐξέλιπον ὑπὲρ τῆς Ἑλλάδος
τὴν πόλιν, ἵνʼ ἐν μέρει πρὸς ἑκατέραν ἀλλὰ μὴ πρὸς ἀμφοτέρας ἅμα τὰς δυνάμεις
κινδυνεύσωσιν·
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ὑπεκθέμενοι δὲ παῖδας καὶ γυναῖκας καὶ μητέρας εἰς Σαλαμῖνα, συνήθροιζον καὶ τὸ τῶν
ἄλλων συμμάχων ναυτικόν. οὐ πολλαῖς δʼ ὕστερον ἡμέραις ἦλθε καὶ ἡ πεζὴ στρατιὰ καὶ τὸ
ναυτικὸν τὸ τῶν βαρβάρων, ὃ τίς οὐκ ἂν ἰδὼν ἐφοβήθη, ὡς μέγας καὶ δεινὸς τῇδε τῇ πόλει
κίνδυνος ὑπὲρ τῆς τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἐλευθερίας ἠγωνίσθη;
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ποίαν δὲ γνώμην εἶχον ἢ οἱ θεώμενοι τοὺς ἐν ταῖς ναυσὶν ἐκείναις, οὔσης καὶ τῆς αὑτῶν
σωτηρίας ἀπίστου καὶ τοῦ προσιόντος κινδύνου, ἢ οἱ μέλλοντες ναυμαχήσειν ὑπὲρ τῆς
φιλότητος, ὑπὲρ τῶν ἄθλων τῶν ἐν Σαλαμῖνι;
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