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title: "The Consonants at Law · Δίκη Συμφώνων"
author: "Lucian"
translator: "Henry Watson Fowler"
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url: https://scriptura.si/works/lucian-the-consonants-at-law/1/
cite: "Lucian, tr. Henry Watson Fowler, The Consonants at Law · Δίκη Συμφώνων, section 1. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/lucian-the-consonants-at-law/1/"
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# The Consonants at Law · Δίκη Συμφώνων

*Lucian, tr. Henry Watson Fowler*

Sigma sues Tau before the court of vowels for stealing its words.

> Greek: ed. Austin Morris Harmon, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-greekLit, tlg0062.tlg014, CC BY-SA 4.0).

> English: Henry Watson Fowler, from the Perseus Digital Library (tlg0062.tlg014.perseus-eng4). Notes are not included.

> Rows follow the references the two texts share (chapters and sections), cut where both reach the end of a sentence.

## 1. Sections 1–12

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/lucian-the-consonants-at-law/1/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/lucian-the-consonants-at-law/1/#p-N

[¶0] 1. Seventh Pyanepsion. Court of the Seven Vowels. Action for assault with robbery. Sigma v. Tau. Plaintiff’s case—that the words in -ττ- are wrongfully withheld from him.

> Greek: 1. [Ἐπὶ ἄρχοντος Ἀριστάρχου Φαληρέως, Πυανεψιῶνος ἑβδόμῃ ἱσταμένου, γραφὴν ἔθετο τὸ Σῖγμα πρὸς τὸ Ταῦ ἐπὶ τῶν ἑπτὰ Φωνηέντων βίας καὶ ὑπαρχόντων ἁρπαγῆς, ἀφῃρῆσθαι λέγον πάντων τῶν ἐν διπλῷ ταῦ ἐκφερομένων.]

[¶1] 2. Vowels of the jury.—For some time this Mr. Tau’s trespasses and encroachments on my property were of minor importance; I made no claim for damages, and affected unconsciousness of what I heard; my conciliatory temper both you and the other letters have reason to know. His covetousness and folly, however, have now so puffed him up, that he is no longer content with my habitual concessions, but insists on more; I accordingly find myself compelled to get the matter settled by you who know both sides of it. The fact is, I am in bodily fear, owing to the crushing to which I am subjected. This evergrowing aggression will end by ousting me completely from my own; I shall be almost dumb, lose my rank as a letter, and be degraded to a mere noise.

> Greek: 2. Μέχρι μέν, ὦ Φωνήεντα δικασταί, ὀλίγα ἠδικούμην ὑπὸ τουτουὶ τοῦ Ταῦ καταχρωμένου τοῖς ἐμοῖς καὶ καταίροντος ἔνθα μὴ δεῖ, οὐ βαρέως ἔφερον τὴν βλάβην καὶ παρήκουον ἔνια τῶν λεγομένων ὑπὸ τῆς μετριότητος, ἣν ἴστε με φυλάσσοντα πρός τε ὑμᾶς καὶ τὰς ἄλλας συλλαβάς· ἐπεὶ δὲ ἐς τοσοῦτον ἥκει πλεονεξίας τε καὶ ἀνομίας, ὥστε ἐφʼ οἷς ἡσύχασα πολλάκις οὐκ ἀγαπῶν, ἄλλʼ ἤδη καὶ πλείω προσβιάζεται, ἀναγκαίως αὐτὸ εὐθύνω νῦν παρὰ τοῖς ἀμφότερα εἰδόσιν ὑμῖν. δέος δὲ οὐ μικρόν μοι ἐπὶ τούτοις τῆς ἀποθλίψεως ἐπέρχεται τῆς ἐμαυτοῦ· τοῖς γὰρ προπεπραγμένοις ἀεί τι μεῖζον προστιθὲν ἄρδην με τῆς οἰκείας ἀποθλίψει χώρας, ὡς ὀλίγου δεῖν ἡσυχίαν ἀγαγόντα μηδὲ ἐν γράμμασιν ἀριθμεῖσθαι, ἐν ἴσῳ δὲ κεῖσθαι τοῦ ψόφου.

[¶2] 3. Justice requires then that not merely you, the jury in this case, but the other letters also, should be on your guard against such attempts. If any one who chooses is to be licensed to leave his own place and usurp that of others, with no objection on your part (whose concurrence is an indispensable condition of all writing), I fail to see how combinations are to have their ancient constitutional rights secured to them. But my first reliance is upon you, who will surely never be guilty of the negligence and indifference which permits injustice; and even if you decline the contest, I have no intention of sitting down under that injustice myself.

> Greek: 3. δίκαιον οὖν οὐχ ὑμᾶς, οἳ δικάζετε νῦν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ γράμματα τῆς πείρας ἔχειν τινὰ φυλακήν· εἰ γὰρ ἐξέσται τοῖς βουλομένοις ἀπὸ τῆς καθʼ αὑτὰ τάξεως ἐς ἀλλοτρίαν βιάζεσθαι καὶ τοῦτο ἐπιτρέψετε ὑμεῖς, ὧν χωρὶς οὐδὲν καθόλου τι γράφεται, οὐχ ὁρῶ τίνα τρόπον αἱ συντάξεις τὰ νόμιμα, ἐφʼ οἷς ἐτάχθη τὰ κατʼ ἀρχάς, ἕξουσιν. ἀλλʼ οὔτε ὑμᾶς οἶμαί ποτε ἐς τοσοῦτον ἀμελείας τε καὶ παροράσεως ἥξειν, ὥστε ἐπιτρέψαι τινὰ μὴ δίκαια, οὔτε, εἰ καθυφήσετε τὸν ἀγῶνα ὑμεῖς, ἐμοὶ παραλειπτέον ἐστὶν ἀδικουμένῳ.

[¶3] 4. It is much to be regretted that the assaults of other letters were not repelled when they first began their lawless practices; then we should not be watching the still pending dispute between Lambda and Rho for possession of κεφαλαλγία or κεφαλαργία, κίσηλις or κίσηρις: Gamma would not have had to defend its rights over γνάφαλλα, constantly almost at blows with Kappa in the debatable land, and per contra it would itself have dropped its campaign against Lambda (if indeed it is more dignified than petty larceny) for converting μόλις to μόγις: in fact lawless confusion generally would have been nipped in the bud. And it is well to abide by the established order; such trespasses betray a revolutionary spirit.

> Greek: 4. ὡς εἴθε καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἀνεκόπησαν τότε αἱ τόλμαι εὐθὺς ἀρξαμένων παρανομεῖν, καὶ οὐκ ἂν ἐπολέμει μέχρι νῦν τὸ Λάμβδα τῷ Ῥῶ διαμφισβητοῦν περὶ τῆς κισήρεως καὶ κεφαλαργίας, οὔτε τὸ Γάμμα τῷ Κάππα διηγωνίζετο καὶ ἐς χεῖρας μικροῦ δεῖν ἤρχετο πολλάκις ἐν τῷ γναφείῳ ὑπὲρ γναφάλλων, ἐπέπαυτο δʼ ἂν καὶ πρὸς τὸ Λάμβδα μαχόμενον, τὸ μόγις ἀφαιρούμενον αὐτοῦ καὶ μάλιστα παρακλέπτον, καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ δʼ ἂν ἠρέμει συγχύσεως ἄρχεσθαι παρανόμου· καλὸν γὰρ ἕκαστον μένειν ἐφʼ ἧς τετύχηκε τάξεως· τὸ δὲ ὑπερβαίνειν ἐς ἃ μὴ χρὴ λύοντός ἐστι τὸ δίκαιον.

[¶4] 5. Now our first legislators—Cadmus the islander, Palamedes, son of Nauplius, or Simonides, whom some authorities credit with the measure—were not satisfied with determining merely our order of precedence in the alphabet; they also had an eye to our individual qualities and faculties. You, Vowels of the jury, constitute the first Estate, because you can be uttered independently; the semi-vowels, requiring support before they can be distinctly heard, are the second; and the lowest Estate they declared to consist of those nine which cannot be sounded at all by themselves. The vowels are accordingly the natural guardians of our laws.

> Greek: 5. καὶ ὅ γε πρῶτος ἡμῖν τοὺς νόμους τούτους διατυπώσας, εἴτε Κάδμος ὁ νησιώτης εἴτε Παλαμήδης ὁ Ναυπλίου, — καὶ Σιμωνίδῃ δὲ ἔνιοι προσάπτουσι τὴν προμήθειαν ταύτην — οὐ τῇ τάξει μόνον, καθʼ ἣν αἱ προεδρίαι βεβαιοῦνται, διώρισαν, τί πρῶτον ἔσται ἢ δεύτερον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ποιότητας, ἃς ἕκαστον ἡμῶν ἔχει, καὶ δυνάμεις συνεῖδον. καὶ ὑμῖν μέν, ὦ δικασταί, τὴν μείζω δεδώκασι τιμήν, ὅτι καθʼ αὑτὰ δύνασθε φθέγγεσθαι, ἡμιφώνοις δὲ τὴν ἐφεξῆς, ὅτι προσθήκης εἰς τὸ ἀκουσθῆναι δεῖται· πασῶν δὲ ἐσχάτην ἐνόμισαν ἔχειν μοῖραν ἐννέα τῶν πάντων, οἷς οὐδὲ φωνὴ πρόσεστι καθʼ αὑτά. τὰ μὲν οὖν φωνήεντα φυλάσσειν ἔοικε τοὺς νόμους τούτους.

[¶5] 6. But this—this Tau—I would give him a worse designation, but that is a manifest impossibility; for without the assistance of two good presentable members of your Estate, Alpha and Upsilon, he would be a mere nonentity—he it is that has dared to outdo all injuries that I have ever known, expelling me from the nouns and verbs of my inheritance, and hunting me out of my conjunctions and prepositions, till his rapacity has become quite unbearable. I am now to trace proceedings from the beginning.

> Greek: 6. τὸ δέ γε Ταῦ τοῦτο, οὐ γὰρ ἔχω χείρονι αὐτὸ ὀνομάσαι ῥήματι ἢ ᾧ καλεῖται, ὃ μὰ τοὺς θεούς, εἰ μὴ ἐξ ὑμῶν δύο συνῆλθον ἀγαθοὶ καὶ καθήκοντες ὁραθῆναι, τό τε Ἄλφα καὶ τὸ Ὗ, οὐκ ἂν ἠκούσθη μόνον, τοῦτο τοίνυν ἐτόλμησεν ἀδικεῖν με πλείω τῶν πώποτε βιασαμένων, ὀνομάτων μὲν καὶ ῥημάτων ἀπελάσαν πατρῴων, ἐκδιῶξαν δὲ ὁμοῦ συνδέσμων ἅμα καὶ προθέσεων, ὡς μηκέτι φέρειν τὴν ἔκτοπον πλεονεξίαν.

[¶6] 7. I was once staying at Cybelus, a pleasant little town, said to be an Athenian colony; my travelling companion was the excellent Rho, best of neighbours. My host was a writer of comedies, called Lysimachus; he seems to have been a Boeotian by descent, though he represented himself as coming from the interior of Attica. It was while with him that I first detected Tau’s depredations. For some earlier occasional attempts (as when he took to τετταράκοντα for τεσσαράκοντα, τήμερον for σήμερον, with little pilferings of that sort) I had explained as a trick and peculiarity of pronunciation; I had tolerated the sound without letting it annoy me seriously.

> Greek: 7. ὅθεν δὲ καὶ ἀπὸ τίνων ἀρξάμενον, ὥρα λέγειν. ἐπεδήμουν ποτὲ Κυβέλῳ, — τὸ δέ ἐστι πολίχνιον οὐκ ἀηδές, ἄποικον, ὡς ἔχει λόγος, Ἀθηναίων — ἐπηγόμην δὲ καὶ τὸ κράτιστον Ῥῶ, γειτόνων τὸ βέλτιστον· κατηγόμην δὲ παρὰ κωμῳδιῶν τινι ποιητῇ· Λυσίμαχος ἐκαλεῖτο, Βοιώτιος μέν, ὡς ἐφαίνετο, τὸ γένος ἀνέκαθεν, ἀπὸ μέσης δὲ ἀξιῶν λέγεσθαι τῆς Ἀττικῆς· παρὰ τούτῳ δὴ τῷ ξένῳ τὴν τοῦ Ταῦ τούτου πλεονεξίαν ἐφώρασα· μέχρι μὲν γὰρ ὀλίγοις ἐπεχείρει, τέτταρα κατατολμῶν καὶ τετταράκοντα λέγειν, ἔτι δὲ τήμερον καὶ τὰ ὅμοια ἐπισπώμενον ἴδια ταυτὶ λέγειν, ἀποστεροῦν με τῶν συγγεγενημένων καὶ συντεθραμμένων γραμμάτων, συνήθειαν ᾤμην καὶ οἰστὸν ἦν μοι τὸ ἄκουσμα καὶ οὐ πάνυ τι ἐδακνόμην ἐπʼ αὐτοῖς.

[¶7] 8. But impunity emboldened him; κασσίτερος became καττίτερος, κάσσυμα and πίσσα shared its fate; and then he cast off all shame and assaulted βασίλισσα. I found myself losing the society in which I had been born and bred; at such a time equanimity is out of place; I am tortured with apprehension; how long will it be before σῦκα is τῦκα? Bear with me, I beseech you; I despair and have none to help me; do I not well to be angry? It is no petty everyday peril, this threatened separation from my long-tried familiars. My κίσσα, my talking bird that nestled in my breast, he has torn away and named anew; my φάσσα, my νῆσσαι, my κόσσυφοι —all gone; and I had Aristarchus’s own word that they were mine; half my μέλισσαι he has lured: to strange hives; Attica itself he has invaded, and wrongfully annexed its Hymettus (as he calls it); and you and the rest looked on at the seizure.

> Greek: 8. ὁπότε δὲ ἐκ τούτων ἀρξάμενον ἐτόλμησε καττίτερον εἰπεῖν καὶ κάττυμα καὶ πίτταν, εἶτα ἀπερυθριᾶσαν καὶ βασίλισσαν βασίλιτταν ὀνομάζειν, οὐ μετρίως ἐπὶ τούτοις ἀγανακτῶ καὶ πίμπραμαι δεδιὸς μὴ τῷ χρόνῳ καὶ τὰ σῦκα τῦκά τις ὀνομάσῃ. καί μοι πρὸς Διὸς ἀθυμοῦντι καὶ μεμονωμένῳ τῶν βοηθησόντων σύγγνωτε τῆς δικαίας ὀργῆς· οὐ γὰρ περὶ μικρὰ καὶ τὰ τυχόντα ἐστὶν ὁ κίνδυνος, ἀφαιρουμένῳ τῶν συνήθων καὶ συνεσχολακότων μοι γραμμάτων. κίσσαν μου, λάλον ὄρνεον, ἐκ μέσων ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν τῶν κόλπων ἁρπάσαν κίτταν ὠνόμασεν· ἀφείλετο δέ μου φάσσαν ἅμα νήσσαις τε καὶ κοσσύφοις ἀπαγορεύοντος Ἀριστάρχου· περιέσπασε δὲ καὶ μελισσῶν οὐκ ὀλίγας· ἐπʼ Ἀττικὴν δὲ ἦλθε καὶ ἐκ μέσης αὐτῆς ἀνήρπασεν ἀνόμως Ὑμησσὸν ὁρώντων ὑμῶν καὶ τῶν ἄλλων συλλαβῶν.

[¶8] 9. But why dwell on such trifles? I am driven from all Thessaly (Thettaly, forsooth!), θάλασσα is now mare clausum to me; he will not leave me a poor garden-herb like σεύτλιον, I have never a πάσσαλος to hang myself upon. What a long-suffering letter I am myself, your own knowledge is witness enough. When Zeta stole my σμάραγδος, and robbed me of all Smyrna, I never took proceedings against him; Xi might break all πάσσαλος, and appeal to Thucydides (who ought to know) as xympathizing with his xystem; I let them alone. My neighbour Rho I made no difficulty about pardoning as an invalid, when he transplanted my μυρσίναι into his garden, or, in a fit of the spleen, took liberties with my κόρση. So much for my temper.

> Greek: 9. ἀλλὰ τί λέγω ταῦτα; Θεσσαλίας με ἐξέβαλεν ὅλης Θετταλίαν ἀξιοῦν λέγειν, καὶ πᾶσαν ἀποκέκλεικέ μοι τὴν θάλασσαν οὐδὲ τῶν ἐν κήποις φεισάμενον σευτλίων, ὡς τὸ δὴ λεγόμενον μηδὲ πάσσαλόν μοι καταλιπεῖν. ὅτι δὲ ἀνεξίκακόν εἰμι γράμμα, μαρτυρεῖτέ μοι καὶ αὐτοὶ μηδέποτε ἐγκαλέσαντι τῷ Ζῆτα σμάραγδον ἀποσπάσαντι καὶ πᾶσαν ἀφελομένῳ Σμύρναν, μηδὲ τῷ Ξῖ πᾶσαν παραβάντι συνθήκην καὶ τὸν συγγραφέα τῶν τοιούτων ἔχοντι Θουκυδίδην σύμμαχον· τῷ μὲν γὰρ γείτονί μου Ῥῶ νοσήσαντι συγγνώμη, καὶ παρʼ αὐτῷ φυτεύσαντί μου τὰς μυρρίνας καὶ παίσαντί μέ ποτε ὑπὸ μελαγχολίας ἐπὶ κόρρης. κἀγὼ μὲν τοιοῦτον.

[¶9] 10. Tau’s, on the other hand, is naturally violent; its manifestations are not confined to me. In proof that he has not spared other letters, but assaulted Delta, Theta, Zeta, and almost the whole alphabet, I wish his various victims to be put in the box. Now, Vowels of the jury, mark the evidence of Delta:—'He robbed me of ἐνδελέχεια, which he claimed, quite illegally, as ἐντελέχεια,' Mark Theta beating his breast and plucking out his hair in grief for the loss of κολοκύνθη. And Zeta mourns for συρίζειν and σαλπίζειν—nay, cannot mourn, for lack of his γρύζειν. What tolerance is possible, what Penalty adequate, for this criminal letter’s iniquities?

> Greek: 10. τὸ δὲ Ταῦ τοῦτο σκοπῶμεν ὡς φύσει βίαιον καὶ πρὸς τὰ λοιπά. ὅτι δὲ οὐδὲ τῶν ἄλλων ἀπέσχετο γραμμάτων, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ Δέλτα καὶ τὸ Θῆτα καὶ τὸ Ζῆτα, μικροῦ δεῖν πάντα ἠδίκησε τὰ στοιχεῖα, αὐτά μοι κάλει τὰ ἀδικηθέντα γράμματα. ἀκούετε, Φωνήεντα δικασταί, τοῦ μὲν Δέλτα λέγοντος· ἀφείλετό μου τὴν ἐνδελέχειαν, ἐντελέχειαν ἀξιοῦν λέγεσθαι παρὰ πάντας τοὺς νόμους· τοῦ Θῆτα δακρύοντος καὶ τῆς κεφαλῆς τὰς τρίχας τίλλοντος ἐπὶ τῷ καὶ τῆς κολοκύνθης ἐστερῆσθαι· τοῦ Ζῆτα, τὸ συρίζειν καὶ σαλπίζειν, ὡς μηκέτʼ αὐτῷ ἐξεῖναι μηδὲ γρύζειν. τίς ἂν τούτων ἀνάσχοιτο; ἢ τίς ἐξαρκέσειε δίκη πρὸς τὸ πονηρότατον τουτὶ Ταῦ;

[¶10] 11. But his wrongs are not even limited to us, his own species; he has now extended his operations to mankind, as I shall show. He does not permit their tongues to work straight. (But that mention of mankind calls me back for a moment, reminding me how he turns γλῶσσα into γλῶττα, half robbing me of the tongue itself. Ay, you are a disease of the tongue in every sense, Tau.) But I return from that digression, to plead the cause of mankind and its wrongs. The prisoner’s designs include the constraint, racking, and mutilation of their utterance. A man sees a beautiful thing, and wishes to describe it as καλόν, but in comes Tau, and forces the man to say ταλόν: he must have precedence everywhere, of course. Another man has something to say about a vine, and lo, before it is out, it is metamorphosed by this miserable creature into misery; he has changed κλῆμα to τλῆμα, with a suggestive hint of τλήμων. And, not content with middle-class victims, he aims at the Persian king himself, the one for whom land and sea are said to have made way and changed their nature: Cyrus comes out at his bidding as Tyrus.

> Greek: 11. τὸ δὲ ἄρα οὐ τὸ ὁμόφυλον τῶν στοιχείων μόνον ἀδικεῖ γένος, ἀλλʼ ἤδη καὶ πρὸς τὸ ἀνθρώπειον μεταβέβηκε τουτονὶ τὸν τρόπον· οὐ γὰρ ἐπιτρέπει γε αὐτοὺς κατʼ εὐθὺ φέρεσθαι ταῖς γλώσσαις· μᾶλλον δέ, ὦ δικασταί, μεταξὺ γάρ με πάλιν τὰ τῶν ἀνθρώπων πράγματα ἀνέμνησε περὶ τῆς γλώσσης, καὶ ταύτης με τὸ μέρος ἀπήλασε καὶ γλῶτταν ποιεῖ τὴν γλῶσσαν. ὦ γλώσσης ἀληθῶς νόσημα Ταῦ. ἀλλὰ μεταβήσομαι πάλιν ἐπʼ ἐκεῖνο καὶ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις συναγορεύσω ὑπὲρ ὧν εἰς αὐτοὺς πλημμελεῖ· δεσμοῖς γάρ τισι στρεβλοῦν καὶ σπαράττειν αὐτῶν τὴν φωνὴν ἐπιχειρεῖ. καὶ ὁ μέν τι καλὸν ἰδὼν καλὸν εἰπεῖν αὐτὸ βούλεται, τὸ δὲ παρεισπεσὸν ταλὸν εἰπεῖν αὐτοὺς ἀναγκάζει ἐν ἅπασι προεδρίαν ἔχειν ἀξιοῦν· πάλιν ἕτερος περὶ κλήματος διαλέγεται, τὸ δὲ — τλῆμον γάρ ἐστιν ἀληθῶς — τλῆμα πεποίηκε τὸ κλῆμα. καὶ οὐ μόνον γε τοὺς τυχόντας ἀδικεῖ, ἀλλʼ ἤδη καὶ τῷ μεγάλῳ βασιλεῖ, ᾧ καὶ γῆν καὶ θάλασσαν εἶξαί φασι καὶ τῆς αὑτῶν φύσεως ἐκστῆναι, τὸ δὲ καὶ τούτῳ ἐπιβουλεύει καὶ Κῦρον αὐτὸν ὄντα Τῦρόν τινα ἀπέφηνεν.

[¶11] 12. Such are his verbal offences against man; his offences in deed remain. Men weep, and bewail their lot, and curse Cadmus with many curses for introducing Tau into the family of letters; they say it was his body that tyrants took for a model, his shape that they imitated, when they set up the erections on which men are crucified. Σταυρός the vile engine is called, and it derives its vile name from him. Now, with all these crimes upon him, does he not deserve death, nay, many deaths? For my part I know none bad enough but that supplied by his own shape—that shape which he gave to the gibbet named σταυρός after him by men. Henry Watson Fowler

> Greek: 12. οὕτω μὲν οὖν ὅσον ἐς φωνὴν ἀνθρώπους ἀδικεῖ· ἔργῳ δὲ πῶς; κλάουσιν ἄνθρωποι καὶ τὴν αὑτῶν τύχην ὀδύρονται καὶ Κάδμῳ καταρῶνται πολλάκις, ὅτι τὸ Ταῦ ἐς τὸ τῶν στοιχείων γένος παρήγαγε· τῷ γὰρ τούτου σώματί φασι τοὺς τυράννους ἀκολουθήσαντας καὶ μιμησαμένους αὐτοῦ τὸ πλάσμα ἔπειτα σχήματι τοιούτῳ ξύλα τεκτήναντας ἀνθρώπους ἀνασκολοπίζειν ἐπʼ αὐτά· ἀπὸ δὲ τούτου καὶ τῷ τεχνήματι τῷ πονηρῷ τὴν πονηρὰν ἐπωνυμίαν συνελθεῖν. τούτων οὖν ἁπάντων ἕνεκα πόσων θανάτων τὸ Ταῦ ἄξιον εἶναι νομίζετε; ἐγὼ μὲν γὰρ οἶμαι δικαίως τοῦτο μόνον ἐς τὴν τοῦ Ταῦ τιμωρίαν ὑπολείπεσθαι, τὸ τῷ σχήματι τῷ αὑτοῦ τὴν δίκην ὑποσχεῖν.