The Orations of Lysias

by Lysias

XXIV. THE CRIPPLE

XXV. REPLY TO "THE OVERTHROW OF THIS DEMOCRACY"

XXVIII. ERGOCLES

XXX. NICOMACHUS

XXXI. AGAINST PHILON

XXXII. DIOGEITON

XXXIII. PANEGYRIC

ORATION II.

FUNERAL ORATION.

1. If I thought it were possible, O fellow-citizens who are assembled at this burial-place, to set forth in words the valor of those who lie here, I should blame the men who invited me to speak about them at a few days' notice. But as all time would not be sufficient for (the combined efforts) of all men to prepare an address adequate to their deeds, the city seems to me, in providing for men to speak here, to make the appointment at short notice, on the supposition that the speakers would under the circumstances meet with less adverse criticism.