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Stephanus 28d
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δείσας τὸ ζῆν κακὸς ὢν καὶ τοῖς φίλοις μὴ τιμωρεῖν, αὐτίκα, φησί, τεθναίην, δίκην ἐπιθεὶς τῷ ἀδικοῦντι, ἵνα μὴ ἐνθάδε μένω καταγέλαστος παρὰ νηυσὶ κορωνίσιν ἄχθος ἀρούρης. ὴ αὐτὸν οἴει φροντίσαι θανάτου καὶ κινδύνου;οὕτω γὰρ ἔχει, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, τῇ ἀληθείᾳ· οὗ ἄν τις ἑαυτὸν τάξῃ ἡγησάμενος βέλτιστον εἶναι ἢ ὑπʼ ἄρχοντος ταχθῇ, ἐνταῦθα δεῖ, ὡς ἐμοὶ δοκεῖ, μένοντα κινδυνεύειν, μηδὲν ὑπολογιζόμενον μήτε θάνατον μήτε ἄλλο μηδὲν πρὸ τοῦ αἰσχροῦ. ἐγὼ οὖν δεινὰ ἂν εἴην εἰργασμένος, ὦ ἄνδρες
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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.
to live as a coward and fail to avenge his friends. “Let me die at once,” he says, “after exacting justice from the wrongdoer, so that I may not remain here, a laughingstock beside the curved ships, a burden upon the earth.” Do you imagine that he gave any thought to death and danger?
For this is how matters truly stand, men of Athens: wherever a man stations himself because he considers it best, or wherever he is stationed by his commander, there, in my judgment, he must remain and face the danger, taking no account of death or anything else before dishonor. I should therefore have acted terribly, men
Mouseia
Mouseia’s complete Plain English edition, made independently and directly from all 125 Ancient Greek Stephanus sections.
afraid of living as a coward and failing to avenge his friends. “Let me die at once,” he says, “after inflicting punishment on the wrongdoer, so that I do not remain here as a laughingstock beside the curved ships, a burden on the earth.” Do you think he gave any thought to death and danger?
For the truth is this, men of Athens: wherever a man stations himself because he believes it best, or wherever he is stationed by his commander, there, in my opinion, he must remain and face the danger, taking no account of death or anything else before disgrace. So I would have done something terrible, men