# ὑπὲρ τῆς Ῥοδίων ἐλευθερίας 1

Demosthenes, ὑπὲρ τῆς Ῥοδίων ἐλευθερίας, Section 1. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/demosthenes/text-31/1

οἶμαι δεῖν, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, περὶ τηλικούτων βουλευομένους διδόναι παρρησίαν ἑκάστῳ τῶν συμβουλευόντων. ἐγὼ δʼ οὐδεπώποθʼ ἡγησάμην χαλεπὸν τὸ διδάξαι τὰ βέλτισθʼ ὑμᾶς (ὡς γὰρ εἰπεῖν ἁπλῶς, ἅπαντες ὑπάρχειν ἐγνωκότες μοι δοκεῖτε), ἀλλὰ τὸ πεῖσαι πράττειν ταῦτα· ἐπειδὰν γάρ τι δόξῃ καὶ ψηφισθῇ, τότʼ ἴσον τοῦ πραχθῆναι ἀπέχει ὅσονπερ πρὶν δόξαι.

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Demosthenes, ὑπὲρ τῆς Ῥοδίων ἐλευθερίας, 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.tlg015.local001/.