来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介第5集第5集》

"So the public ruin

公义覆灭贫穷
invades the house of each citizen,

侵袭了每个公民的房屋
and the courtyard doors

庭院的大门
no longer have strength to keep it away,

再也无力阻挡它的脚步
but it overleaps the lofty wall and though a man runs in

它跨越高墙尽管有人身先士卒
and tries to hide it in his chamber or closet,

试图将它锁在小屋或是壁橱之内
it ferrets him out.

它还是破门而出
So, my spirit dictates to me.

我的灵魂大声疾呼
I must tell the Athenians how many evils

雅典的人民啊谁让这城邦不堪入目
a city suffers from bad government."

是那腐朽的政府啊不可饶恕
The Greek word for that is Dysnomia

希腊语中腐朽的政府被称为"Dysnomia"
"and how good government" Eunomia

而廉洁的政府叫做"Eunomia"