Lysias, On the Refusal of a Pension, section 8

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On the Murder of Eratosthenes

Funeral Oration

Against Simon: Defense

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

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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[8] And indeed, how extraordinary the case would be, gentlemen! When my misfortune was but simple, I am found to have been receiving this pension; but now, when old age, diseases, and the ills that attend on them are added to my trouble, I am to be deprived of it!

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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