# Declamationes 2.18

Marcus Antonius Polemon, Declamationes, Chapter 2. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/marcus-antonius-polemon/declamationes/2.18

οὕτως οὖν σκοπεῖτε. εἰ τῆς μάχης οἱ παῖδες ἡμῶν περιγενόμενοι τῆς παρούσης μφισβήτουν τάξεως, τίς πρότερος ἂν διεκρίθη; ὁ ἰδιώτης ἢ ὁ πολέμαρχος; τίς ἐπῄνεσε τοὺς πεσόντας; οὐχ ὁ ὁπλίσας; οὐχ ὁ τάξας; οὐχ ὁ τοιούτους παρασχών; ἐμοὶ μὲν δοκεῖ. ὑμεῖς δέ, τί; ἆρα οὐκ ἄν, εἰ καὶ μόνον ἴσην τὴν ἀρετὴν ὁ πολέμαρχος τῷ ἰδιώτῃ παράσχῃ, τὸ πλέον ἂν τῆς τιμῆς τῇ ἡγεμονίᾳ δῶτε; νὴ Δία.

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Marcus Antonius Polemon, Declamationes, ed. Hugo Hinck. 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.
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