# ὑπὲρ τῆς Ῥοδίων ἐλευθερίας 8

Demosthenes, ὑπὲρ τῆς Ῥοδίων ἐλευθερίας, Section 8. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/demosthenes/text-31/8

εἰ μὲν οὖν ὅλως ἐγνώκατʼ, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, ὅσων ἂν βασιλεὺς ἐγκρατὴς γένηται φθάσας ἢ παρακρουσάμενός τινας τῶν ἐν ταῖς πόλεσι, παραχωρεῖν, οὐ καλῶς ἐγνώκατε, ὡς ἐγὼ κρίνω· εἰ δʼ ὑπὲρ τῶν δικαίων καὶ πολεμεῖν, ἂν τούτου δέῃ, καὶ πάσχειν ὁτιοῦν οἴεσθε χρῆναι, πρῶτον μὲν ὑμῖν ἧττον δεήσει τούτων, ὅσῳ ἂν μᾶλλον ἐγνωκότες ἦτε ταῦτα, ἔπειθʼ ἃ προσήκει φρονεῖν δόξετε.

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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/.