Funeral Oration

Lysias

Lysias. Lamb, W.R.M., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930.

By means of countless toils, conspicuous struggles, and glorious perils they made Greece free, while proving the supremacy of their native land: they commanded the sea for seventy years[*](From 476 B.C., when Athens became the head of the Delian League, to 405 B.C., when she was defeated at Aegospotami.) and saved their allies from faction,