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Stephanus 34c
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ὑμῶν ἀγανακτήσειεν ἀναμνησθεὶς ἑαυτοῦ, εἰ ὁ μὲν καὶ ἐλάττω τουτουῒ τοῦ ἀγῶνος ἀγῶνα ἀγωνιζόμενος ἐδεήθη τε καὶ ἱκέτευσε τοὺς δικαστὰς μετὰ πολλῶν δακρύων, παιδία τε αὑτοῦ ἀναβιβασάμενος ἵνα ὅτι μάλιστα ἐλεηθείη, καὶ ἄλλους τῶν οἰκείων καὶ φίλων πολλούς, ἐγὼ δὲ οὐδὲν ἄρα τούτων ποιήσω, καὶ ταῦτα κινδυνεύων, ὡς ἂν δόξαιμι, τὸν ἔσχατον κίνδυνον. τάχʼ ἂν οὖν τις ταῦτα ἐννοήσας αὐθαδέστερον ἂν πρός με σχοίη καὶ ὀργισθεὶς αὐτοῖς τούτοις θεῖτο ἂν μετʼ
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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.
vote in wrath. If any of you is so disposed—and I do not think that any of you is, but if one is—I believe I should be speaking reasonably to him if I said: My good sir, I too have relatives, I suppose. For in the very words of Homer, I too am not sprung from an oak or a stone, but from human beings; and so I have relatives, and sons as well, men of Athens—three of them, one already a youth, and two still children. Yet I shall not bring any of them up here and beg you to vote for my acquittal. Why, then, shall I do none of these things? Not from stubbornness, men
Mouseia
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anger. If any of you feels this way—I do not suppose that anyone does, but if someone does—I think I would be speaking reasonably to him if I said: My good sir, I too presumably have relatives. For, as Homer says, I was not born “from an oak or a rock,” but from human beings; and so I have relatives and indeed sons, men of Athens—three of them, one already a young man and two still children. Nevertheless, I will not bring any of them into court and beg you to acquit me. Why, then, will I do none of these things? Not out of arrogance, men