Deliverance of the City
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
deliverance · safe return · safety · safety and prosperity · salvation · save ourselves
in the texts
Against Leocrates
The positive outcome of conviction, representing the preservation of Athens, its laws, and its people.
But if you kill him, you will be encouraging others to preserve your country with its revenues and its prosperity.
It is now for each of you to reflect that the absolver of Leocrates condemns his country to death and slavery, that of the two caskets before you one stands for treason and the other for deliverance, that the votes cast into one are given for the destruction of your country and the rest for safety and prosperity in Athens.
Anabasis
The army's survival and escape from enemy power.
I was saying that we have many fair hopes of deliverance.
Thereupon Mithradates undertook to show that there was no possibility of their effecting a safe return unless the King so pleased.
This man maintained that anyone who said he could gain safety in any other way than by winning the King’s consent through persuasion, if possible, was talking nonsense;