Against Alcibiades: For Deserting the Ranks

Lysias

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

ἀλλὰ μὲν δὴ οὐδʼ ἂν ἐξελθὼν ἐκ τῆς πόλεως οὐδὲν δύναιτο κακὸν ὑμᾶς ἐργάσασθαι, δειλὸς ὢν καὶ πένης καὶ πράττειν ἀδύνατος καὶ τοῖς οἰκείοις διάφορος καὶ ὑπὸ τῶν ἄλλων μισούμενος. ὥστʼ οὐδὲ τούτων ἕνεκα αὐτὸν ἄξιον φυλάττεσθαι,