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Stephanus 32d
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οὐ λόγῳ ἀλλʼ ἔργῳ αὖ ἐνεδειξάμην ὅτι ἐμοὶ θανάτου μὲν μέλει, εἰ μὴ ἀγροικότερον ἦν εἰπεῖν, οὐδʼ ὁτιοῦν, τοῦ δὲ μηδὲν ἄδικον μηδʼ ἀνόσιον ἐργάζεσθαι, τούτου δὲ τὸ πᾶν μέλει. ἐμὲ γὰρ ἐκείνη ἡ ἀρχὴ οὐκ ἐξέπληξεν, οὕτως ἰσχυρὰ οὖσα, ὥστε ἄδικόν τι ἐργάσασθαι, ἀλλʼ ἐπειδὴ ἐκ τῆς θόλου ἐξήλθομεν, οἱ μὲν τέτταρες ᾤχοντο εἰς Σαλαμῖνα καὶ ἤγαγον Λέοντα, ἐγὼ δὲ ᾠχόμην ἀπιὼν οἴκαδε. καὶ ἴσως ἂν διὰ ταῦτα ἀπέθανον, εἰ μὴ ἡ ἀρχὴ διὰ ταχέων κατελύθη. καὶ
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.
showed again, not in word but in deed, that death is something I care not the slightest about—if it is not too blunt to say so—but that my entire concern is not to do anything unjust or impious. For that government, powerful as it was, did not terrify me into doing an unjust deed. When we came out of the Tholos, the other four went off to Salamis and brought Leon back, while I went home. And I might perhaps have been put to death for this, if the government had not soon afterward been overthrown. And
Mouseia
Mouseia’s complete Plain English edition, made independently and directly from all 125 Ancient Greek Stephanus sections.
again demonstrated, not by words but by deeds, that death was not the slightest concern to me, if it is not too blunt to put it that way, but that my entire concern was not to do anything unjust or impious. That government, powerful as it was, did not frighten me into doing anything unjust. When we left the Tholos, the other four went to Salamis and brought back Leon, but I left and went home. I might have been put to death for this if that government had not soon been overthrown. And