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Stephanus 32c
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νόμου καὶ τοῦ δικαίου ᾤμην μᾶλλόν με δεῖν διακινδυνεύειν ἢ μεθʼ ὑμῶν γενέσθαι μὴ δίκαια βουλευομένων, φοβηθέντα δεσμὸν ἢ θάνατον. καὶ ταῦτα μὲν ἦν ἔτι δημοκρατουμένης τῆς πόλεως· ἐπειδὴ δὲ ὀλιγαρχία ἐγένετο, οἱ τριάκοντα αὖ μεταπεμψάμενοί με πέμπτον αὐτὸν εἰς τὴν θόλον προσέταξαν ἀγαγεῖν ἐκ Σαλαμῖνος Λέοντα τὸν Σαλαμίνιον ἵνα ἀποθάνοι, οἷα δὴ καὶ ἄλλοις ἐκεῖνοι πολλοῖς πολλὰ προσέταττον, βουλόμενοι ὡς πλείστους ἀναπλῆσαι αἰτιῶν. τότε μέντοι ἐγὼ
Mouseia
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.
the law and justice and face the danger, rather than join you when you were resolving to act unjustly, out of fear of imprisonment or death. This happened while the city was still under democracy. But when the oligarchy came to power, the Thirty in turn summoned me and four others to the Tholos and ordered us to bring Leon of Salamis from Salamis so that he might be put to death. They gave many such orders to many others, wishing to implicate as many people as possible in their crimes. On that occasion, however, I
Mouseia
Mouseia’s complete Plain English edition, made independently and directly from all 125 Ancient Greek Stephanus sections.
with the law and justice and face the danger, rather than join you in making an unjust decision because I feared imprisonment or death. This happened while the city was still under democracy. Later, when the oligarchy came to power, the Thirty in turn summoned me and four others to the Tholos and ordered us to bring Leon of Salamis from Salamis so that he could be put to death. They issued many such orders to many other people as well, because they wanted to implicate as many people as possible in their crimes. But at that time I