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grbs-8271	Usher, S.	Lysias and his Clients	1976	10	.pdf	application/pdf	4219	202	62	An interesting illustration of the extent to which an author could influence opinion regarding his literary output is supplied, once more by Isocrates, who appears to have succeeded in disowning a large number of forensic speeches which he wrote early in his career.29 If Isocrates could do this in the case of speeches which he may actually have written, Lysias should have had an easier task in disowning speeches which he did not compose. As to his choice of speeches for publication, those which would dis­ play his art in its most favourable light would be speeches on difficult cases for obscure c1ients30 who were inexperienced or diffident or both.sI Examples of such speeches are easy to find in the Corpus Lysia­ cum.	cache/grbs-8271.pdf	txt/grbs-8271.txt