Thursday, June 29, 2023
Freedom of Speech
Moschion, fragment 4 (tr. Gilbert Norwood):
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But what is right and just never will I leave unpoken; for honour bids a true man guard the freedom of speech fostered in Athen's citizens and the town of Theseus.There is quite a distance between τὴν and παρρησίαν. Norwood's "honour bids a true man guard" is a bit free — more literally it means "(it is) good to guard nobly."
ὅμως τό γ' ὀρθὸν καὶ δίκαιον οὔποτε
σιγῇ παρήσω· τὴν γὰρ ἐντεθραμμένην
ἀστοῖς Ἀθάνας τῇ τε Θησέως πόλει
καλὸν φυλάξαι γνησίως παρρησίαν.
