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Stephanus 37a
Stephanus 37a of 125. Read it here for reference, or continue through the entire work without leaving the reader.
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τιμῶμαι, ἐν πρυτανείῳ σιτήσεως.ἴσως οὖν ὑμῖν καὶ ταυτὶ λέγων παραπλησίως δοκῶ λέγειν ὥσπερ περὶ τοῦ οἴκτου καὶ τῆς ἀντιβολήσεως, ἀπαυθαδιζόμενος· τὸ δὲ οὐκ ἔστιν, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, τοιοῦτον ἀλλὰ τοιόνδε μᾶλλον. πέπεισμαι ἐγὼ ἑκὼν εἶναι μηδένα ἀδικεῖν ἀνθρώπων, ἀλλὰ ὑμᾶς τοῦτο οὐ πείθω· ὀλίγον γὰρ χρόνον ἀλλήλοις διειλέγμεθα. ἐπεί, ὡς ἐγᾦμαι, εἰ ἦν ὑμῖν νόμος, ὥσπερ καὶ ἄλλοις ἀνθρώποις, περὶ θανάτου μὴ μίαν ἡμέραν
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Mouseia’s complete machine-assisted Musean translation, made directly from the complete Ancient Greek text across all 125 Stephanus sections for fidelity, philosophical precision, Socratic voice, legal clarity, and structure.
I propose: maintenance in the Prytaneum.Perhaps in saying this I seem to you to be speaking in much the same spirit as when I spoke about pity and supplication—as though I were being stubborn. But that is not so, men of Athens. The truth is rather this: I am convinced that I have never willingly wronged any human being, but I cannot persuade you of it, for we have had only a short time to converse with one another. If, as I believe, you had a law, as other peoples do, that trials involving death should not last merely one day—
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