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[132] τὰ γοῦν1 πετεινά, ἃ2 μάλιστα πέφυκε πρὸς τάχος,3 ἔστιν ἰδεῖν ὑπὲρ τῆς αὑτῶν νεοττιᾶς ἐθέλοντα ἀποθνῄσκειν: ὅθεν καὶ τῶν ποιητῶν τινες εἰρήκασιν:“ οὐδ᾽ ἀγρία γὰρ ὄρνις, ἢν πλάσῃ δόμον,
ἄλλην4 νεοσσοὺς ἠξίωσεν ἐντεκεῖν.5
”Unknownἀλλὰ Λεωκράτης τοσοῦτον ὑπερβέβληκε δειλίᾳ ὥστε τὴν πατρίδα τοῖς πολεμίοις ἐγκατέλιπε.

1 Post γοῦν codd. ζῷα habent, del. G. Hermann.

2 ἃ, quod infra post τάχος habent codd., huc transtulit Reiske.

3 τάχος τὸ τάχος ΝΑ: τὸ om. cett.

4 ἄλλην Coraes: ἄλλῃ codd.

5 ἠξίωσεν ἐντεκεῖν Scaliger: ἐντεκεῖν ἠξίωσεν codd.

Lycurgus. Minor Attic Orators in two volumes, 2, with an English translation by J. O. Burtt, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1962.

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