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  • Speech 1: On the Murder of Eratosthenes
  • Speech 2: Funeral Oration
  • Speech 3: Against Simon: Defense
  • Speech 4: On A Wound By Premeditation
  • Speech 5: For Callias
  • Speech 6: Against Andocides
  • Speech 7: Defense in the Matter of the Olive Stump
  • Speech 8: Accusation of Calumny
  • Speech 9: For The Soldier
  • Speech 10: Against Theomnestus 1
  • Speech 11: Against Theomnestus 2
  • Speech 12: Against Eratosthenes
  • Speech 13: Against Agoratus
  • Speech 14: Against Alcibiades 1
  • Speech 15: Against Alcibiades 2
  • Speech 16: In Defense of Mantitheus
  • Speech 17: On The Property Of Eraton
  • Speech 18: On The Property Of The Brother Of Nicias: Peroration
  • Speech 19: On the Property of Aristophanes
  • Speech 20: For Polystratus
  • Speech 21: Defence Against A Charge Of Taking Bribes
  • Speech 22: Against The Corn-Dealers
  • Speech 23: Against Pancleon
  • Speech 24: On The Refusal Of A Pension
  • Speech 25: Defense Against a Charge of Subverting the Democracy
  • Speech 26: On the Scrutiny of Evandros
  • Speech 27: Against Epicrates and his Fellow-envoys
  • Speech 28: Against Ergocles
  • Speech 29: Against Philocrates
  • Speech 30: Against Nicomachus
  • Speech 31: Against Philon
  • Speech 32: Against Diogeiton
  • Speech 33: Olympic Oration
  • Speech 34: Against The Subversion of the Ancestral Constitution
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    Lysias, Speeches

    On the Murder of Eratosthenes

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    [36] I call upon you to support their opinion: otherwise, you will be giving adulterers such licence that you will encourage thieves as well to call themselves adulterers; since they will feel assured that, if they plead this reason in their defence, and allege that they enter other men's houses for this purpose, nobody will touch them. For everyone will know that the laws on adultery are to be given the go-by, and that it is your vote that one has to fear, because this has supreme authority over all the city's affairs.


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    Cross references from Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek:
    8, 15, 265 [Future Tense]: oudeis autôn hapsetai

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    Lysias. Lysias with an English translation by W.R.M. Lamb, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
    OCLC: 7623486
    ISBN: 0674992695

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