Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Ouster of Unjust Rulers
Epigram preserved by Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon 190 = Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum 62.50 (tr. Chris Carey):
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These men for their virtue were honored with crowns by the ancientSee Peter Liddel, Decrees of Fourth-Century Athens (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), vol. I, pp. 105-113.
people of Athens, because once when men with unjust
ordinances ruled the city, they were first to check them
and lead the way, accepting mortal danger.
·τούσδ᾽ ἀρετῆς ἕνεκα στεφάνοις ἐγέραιρε παλαίχθων
δῆμος Ἀθηναίων, οἵ ποτε τοὺς ἀδίκοις
θεσμοῖς ἄρξαντας πόλιος πρῶτοι καταπαύειν
ἦρξαν, κίνδυνον σώμασιν ἀράμενοι.
