# ὑπὲρ τῆς Ῥοδίων ἐλευθερίας 13

Demosthenes, ὑπὲρ τῆς Ῥοδίων ἐλευθερίας, Section 13. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/demosthenes/text-31/13

ἐπεὶ καὶ βασιλέα γε, ὅ τι μὲν ποιήσει μὰ Δίʼ οὐκ ἂν εἴποιμʼ ἔγωγʼ ὡς οἶδα, ὅτι μέντοι συμφέρει τῇ πόλει δῆλον ἤδη γενέσθαι πότερʼ ἀντιποιήσεται τῆς πόλεως τῆς Ῥοδίων ἢ οὔ, τοῦτʼ ἂν ἰσχυρισαίμην· οὐ γὰρ ὑπὲρ Ῥοδίων βουλευτέον, ὅταν ἀντιποιῆται, μόνον, ἀλλʼ ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν αὐτῶν καὶ τῶν πάντων Ἑλλήνων.

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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/.