Lysias, Against Simon, section 32

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On the Murder of Eratosthenes

Funeral Oration

On A Wound By Premeditation

Against Andocides

Defense in the Matter of the Olive Stump

Accusation of Calumny

For The Soldier

Against Theomnestus 1

Against Theomnestus 2

Against Eratosthenes

Against Agoratus

Against Alcibiades 1

Against Alcibiades 2

In Defense of Mantitheus

On The Property Of Eraton

On The Property Of The Brother Of Nicias: Peroration

On the Property of Aristophanes

For Polystratus

Defence Against A Charge Of Taking Bribes

Against The Corn-Dealers

Against Pancleon

On The Refusal Of A Pension

Defense Against a Charge of Subverting the Democracy

On the Scrutiny of Evandros

Against Epicrates and his Fellow-envoys

Against Ergocles

Against Philocrates

Against Nicomachus

Against Diogeiton

Olympic Oration

Against The Subversion of the Ancestral Constitution

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So who of you can believe that I previously left the city on a voyage with the boy to avoid a fight with this man, and then, when I had got back, I took him to Simon's house, where I was to expect most embarrassment?

Lysias. Lysias with an English translation by W.R.M. Lamb, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.

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