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Headword:
*dhmosqe/nhs
Adler number: delta,455
Translated headword: Demosthenes
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The orator; he was a man of outstanding ability in reflection and in the expression of his thoughts; hence, too, he was regarded as the most eloquent among his contemporaries, since he was most competent in inferring what was not apparent[1] and in explaining what he had understood. In all that he tried to say or do in defence of the public interest, although he did not live at a time propitious for the reputation of political leaders, he alone among Athenians of his own time spoke out freely against the Macedonian tyrants; they saw him as someone impossible to bribe, at a time when it so happened that those in the other cities who, because they desired enrichment more than the public good, were bought by gifts of money, for the sake of their own gain placed what they saw as their own immediate interest before what was in the common interest. Hence, even the things for which they later blamed him were forgiven by the Athenians, and they welcomed him back again and relied on his advice in everything. And the nobility of his death most of all caused them to regret openly their decisions. Not long after the news came of
Demosthenes' death, they went back on decisions they had taken more for fear of Macedon than with full integrity of judgement, and they voted to grant immunity from taxation to the eldest member of
Demosthenes' family, and to set up a bronze image of him in the
agora;[2] and they inscribed an elegy on the base of the statue: 'If your power had been equal to your judgement,
Demosthenes, never would the Ares of Macedon have ruled the Greeks.'
*dhmosqe/nhs, o( r(h/twr, a)nh\r h)=n gnw=nai/ te kai\ ei)pei=n, o(/sa e)nqumhqei/h, dunatw/tatos geno/menos. o(/qen kai\ deino/tatos e)/doce tw=n kaq' au(to/n, oi(=a dh\ i(kanw/tatos to\ a)fane\s ei)ka/sai kai\ to\ gnwsqe\n e)chgh/sasqai. kai\ e)n oi(=s u(pe\r tw=n koinw=n le/gein ti h)\ pra/ttein e)pexei/rhse, kairw=| me\n e)pithdei/w| ou) ma/la e)xrh/sato e)s do/can tw=n dhmagwgou/ntwn. plei=sta de\ ei(=s a)nh\r ou(=tos tw=n kaq' au(to\n *)aqhnai/wn toi=s *makedo/nwn tura/nnois su\n parrhsi/a| a)nteipw\n para\ toi=sde a)dwro/tatos e)/docen ei)=nai. o(/te dh\ sune/baine tou\s e)n tai=s a)/llais po/lesin, oi(=a dh\ tw=n kerdw=n e)fieme/nous ma=llon e)k tou= e)s to\ koino\n lusitelou=ntos, e)cwnhqe/ntas xrhma/twn do/sei to\ kata\ sfa=s w(s e)do/koun e)n tw=| parauti/ka ke/rdous tou= sfete/rou ei(/neka pro\ tou= e)s ta\ koina\ sumfe/rontos ti/qesqai. o(/qen au)tw=| kai\ e)f' oi(=s u(/steron h)|tia/qh suggno/ntes oi( *)aqhnai=oi katede/canto/ te au)=qis kai\ e)s pa/nta sumbou/lw| e)xrh/santo. kai\ au)tw=| h( teleuth\ gennai/a e)pigenome/nh ma/lista e)s metame/leian h)/gagen au)tou\s ou)k a)fanh= tw=n gnwsqe/ntwn. ou) pollw=| gou=n u(/steron h)\ e)caggelqh=nai teqnhko/ta *dhmosqe/nhn metegi/nwskon e)f' oi(=s de/ei tw=n *makedo/nwn ma=llon h)\ gnw/mh| th=| dikaiota/th| e)/krinan, kai\ a)te/leia/n te tw=| presbuta/tw| ge/nous tou= *dhmosqe/nous yhfi/zontai kai\ xalkou=n sth=nai au)to\n e)n a)gora=|, kai\ e)legei=on th=| ba/sei tou= a)ndria/ntos e)pe/grayan: ei)/per i)/shn r(w/mhn gnw/mh|, *dhmo/sqenes, ei)=xes, ou)/pot' a)\n *(ellh/nwn h)=rcen *)/arhs *makedw/n.
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Keywords: art history; biography; constitution; economics; ethics; geography; historiography; history; imagery; poetry; politics; rhetoric
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 28 June 2000@13:51:36.
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