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| περὶ πολλοῦ ἂν ποιησαίμην, ὦ ἄνδρες, τὸ τοιούτους ὑμᾶς ἐμοὶ δικαστὰς περὶ τούτου τοῦ πράγματος γενέσθαι, οἷοίπερ ἂν ὑμῖν αὐτοῖς εἴητε τοιαῦτα πεπονθότες· |
| I would greatly value your being the kind of jurors in this case as you would be towards yourselves if you had suffered such problems. |
| Lysias Speeches 1.1 (1) |
| μηδ’ οὗ μόνου μεταλαβεῖν ἔδωκεν ἡ μοι τῶν ἐν τῇ πατρίδι, τούτου διὰ τουτονὶ ἀποστερήσητέ με· μηδ’ ἃ πάλαι κοινῇ πάντες ἔδοτέ μοι, νῦν οὗτος εἷς ὢν πείσῃ πάλιν ὑμᾶς ἀφελέσθαι. |
| Do not deprive me because of that man of the one thing which the city gave me alone to have a share in. Do not let that one man persuade you to take back now what you all mutually decided to give me before. |
| Lysias Speeches 24.22 (2) |
| τοιοῦτος γίγνου περὶ τοὺς γονεῖς, οἵους ἂν εὔξαιο περὶ σεαυτὸν γενέσθαι τοὺς σεαυτοῦ παῖδας. |
| Be the kind of children to your parents as you would have your children be to you. |
| Isocrates On Demonicus 1.14 (4) |
| θαυμάζω οὖν ὅπως ποτὲ ἐπείσθησαν Ἀθηναῖοι Σωκράτην περὶ θεοὺς μὴ σωφρονεῖν, τὸν ἀσεβὲς μὲν οὐδέν ποτε περὶ τοὺς θεοὺς οὔτ’ εἰπόντα οὔτε πράξαντα, τοιαῦτα δὲ καὶ λέγοντα καὶ πράττοντα περὶ θεῶν οἷά τις ἂν καὶ λέγων καὶ πράττων εἴη τε καὶ νομίζοιτο εὐσεβέστατος. |
| So I am amazed how the Athenians could once have been convinced that Socrates was wrong about the gods, when he neither said or did anything disrespectful to the gods, and rather spoke and acted about the gods like someone who would both be considered and would actually be the most reverential towards the gods. |
| Xenophon Memorabilia 1.1.20 (8) |
| ἃ ποιεῖν αἰσχρόν, ταῦτα νόμιζε μηδὲ λέγειν εἶναι καλόν. |
| Do not consider it right even to talk about things that it’s shameful to do. |
| Isocrates On Demonicus 1.15 (10) |
| ὅσα μὲν οὖν ἐκεῖνος κακὰ ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ πέπονθε, πολὺ ἂν ἔργον εἴη λέγειν· ὅσα δὲ εἰς ἐμὲ αὐτὸν ἐξημάρτηκεν, ἡγοῦμαι ταῦθ’ ὑμῖν προσήκειν ἀκοῦσαι. |
| It would be a big job to tell you everything that he suffered at his hands. But I think it would be right for you to hear about all the wrongs he did to me. |
| Lysias Speeches 3.6 (33) |
| τὰ γὰρ περὶ τὸν πόλεμον πάντα ἐπίστασθον, ὅσα δεῖ τὸν μέλλοντα ἀγαθὸν στρατηγὸν ἔσεσθαι, τάς τε τάξεις καὶ τὰς ἡγεμονίας τῶν στρατοπέδων καὶ ὅσα ἐν ὅπλοις μάχεσθαι διδακτέον· |
| They know everything that someone who is going to become a good general should know: the arrangements of the? |
| Plato Euthydemus 273c (36) |
| ὅσας μὲν οὖν εἴληφα, δεσμίους χέρας σῴζουσι πανδήμοισι πρόσπολοι στέγαις· ὅσαι δ’ ἄπεισιν, ἐξ ὄρους θηράσομαι, |
| Public servants are watching all the women I caught And I will chase out of the mountains all those that got away. |
| Euripides Bacchae 228-231 (70) |
| ἃ δ’ εἶπον εἰς ἅπαντας οὐκ ἀρνήσομαι, Τροίας ἁλούσης ἀνδρὶ τῷ πρώτῳ στρατοῦ σὴν παῖδα δοῦναι σφάγιον ἐξαιτουμένῳ. |
| I will not deny what I said in front of everybody, that once Troy was captured I would give your child to the first of the army who asked for him as a sacrifice victim. |
| Euripides Hecuba 303-4 (75) |
| ὅθεν δὲ αὐτὸ ἡγοῦμαι οὐ διδακτὸν εἶναι μηδ’ ὑπ’ ἀνθρώπων παρασκευαστὸν ἀνθρώποις, δίκαιός εἰμι εἰπεῖν. |
| It is right for me to explain why I think that it may not be taught, and that men may not hand it down to men. |
| Plato Protagoras 319b (138) |
| πότερα οὖν ὅσα ἐμοὶ δοκεῖ δεῖν ἀποκρίνεσθαι, τοσαῦτά σοι ἀποκρίνωμαι, ἢ ὅσα σοί; |
| Should I answer for as long as I think is necessary or for as long as you think is necessary? |
| Plato Protagoras 334 (185) |
| σύ νυν γέφυραν ταύτὴν ἔα κατὰ χώρην ἑστάναι, φυλάκους αὐτῆς λιπὼν τούτους οἵπερ μιν ἔζευξαν. |
| Leave this bridge standing, and leave the men who built it as guards. |
| Herodotus Histories 4.97 (219) |
| ὅθεν οὖν ἡμεῖς τε ῥᾷστα διδάξομεν καὶ ὑμεῖς μαθήσεσθε, ἐντεῦθεν ὑμῖν ἄρξομαι διηγεῖσθαι. |
| I will start to explain from the point where I can most easily instruct and you can most easily understand. |
| Lysias Against Agoratus 13.5 (228) |
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