# περὶ τῆς Ἀτελείας πρὸς Λεπτίνην 79

Demosthenes, περὶ τῆς Ἀτελείας πρὸς Λεπτίνην, Section 79. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/demosthenes/text-3/79

δοκεῖ τισὶν ὑμῶν, ὦ ἄνδρες δικασταί, οὗτος ὃ τοσαύτας πόλεις λαβὼν καὶ τριήρεις τῶν πολεμίων ναυμαχίᾳ νικήσας, καὶ τοσούτων καλῶν αἴτιος ὤν, αἰσχροῦ δʼ οὐδενὸς τῇ πόλει, ἄξιος εἶναι ἀποστερηθῆναι τὴν ἀτέλειαν ἣν εὕρετο παρʼ ὑμῶν καὶ τῷ υἱεῖ κατέλιπεν; ἐγὼ μὲν οὐκ οἴομαι. καὶ γὰρ ἂν ἄλογον εἴη· μίαν μὲν πόλιν εἰ ἀπώλεσεν ἢ ναῦς δέκα μόνας, περὶ προδοσίας ἂν αὐτὸν εἰσήγγελλον οὗτοι, καὶ εἰ ἑάλω, τὸν ἅπαντʼ ἂν ἀπωλώλει χρόνον·

---

Demosthenes, περὶ τῆς Ἀτελείας πρὸς Λεπτίνην, ed. Samuel Henry Butcher. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg0014.tlg020.local001/.