Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, Charles Anthony Vince (Translator), James Herbert Vince (Translator), 122

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[122] I immediately declined the appointment on affidavit,¹ and when certain persons were clamorous and insisted that I should go, I declared that I would not leave Athens ; but the nomination of Aeschines was still valid. After the dispersal of the Assembly, the envoys met and discussed which of them should be left behind,² for the whole business was still in the clouds, and the future uncertain, and all sorts of conferences and discussions were going on in the market-place.

On the False Embassy. Demosthenes. Charles Anthony Vince (Translator), James Herbert Vince (Translator). London. 1926.

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On the Embassy (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. II: De Corona, De Falsa Legatione, XVIII, XIX. Vince, C. A. and Vince, J. H., translators. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1926 (1939 reprint).)

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περὶ τῆς παραπρεσβείας Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. I. Butcher, S. H., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903.) — 122 focus

[122] ἐγὼ μὲν δὴ παρελθὼν ἐξωμοσάμην εὐθέως, καὶ θορυβούντων τινῶν καὶ κελευόντων βαδίζειν οὐκ ἂν ἔφην ἐλθεῖν· οὗτος δʼ ἐκεχειροτόνητο. ἐπειδὴ δʼ ἀνέστη μετὰ ταῦθʼ ἡ ἐκκλησία, συνελθόντες ἐβουλεύονθʼ οὗτοι τίνʼ αὐτοῦ καταλείψουσιν. ἔτι γὰρ τῶν πραγμάτων ὄντων μετεώρων καὶ τοῦ μέλλοντος ἀδήλου, σύλλογοι καὶ λόγοι παντοδαποὶ κατὰ τὴν ἀγορὰν ἐγίγνοντο τότε·

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On the False Embassy

1. A citizen appointed to any office could decline it, if he took an oath before the Assembly that for reasons of health, etc., he was unable to serve.

2. To watch and counteract Demosthenes.

Demosthenes On the False Embassy 122

Charles Anthony Vince (Translator), James Herbert Vince (Translator)

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