Demosthenes, Against Conon, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 34

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[34] Ah but, they will say, they are not people of that sort. I am inclined to think, however, that many of you know Diotimus and Archebiades and Chaeretimus, the grey-headed man yonder, men who by day put on sour looks and pretend to play the Spartan¹ and wear short cloaks and single-soled shoes, but when they get together and are by themselves leave no form of wickedness or indecency untried.

Against Conon. Demosthenes. Augustus Taber Murray (Translator). London. 1939.

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Ariston Against Conon, an Action for Assault (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 3. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939 (printing).)

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κατὰ Κόνωνος αἰκείας Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. III. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931.) — 34 focus

[34] ἀλλὰ νὴ Δίʼ οὐκ εἰσὶ τοιοῦτοι. ἀλλʼ ἴσασιν ὑμῶν, ὡς ἐγὼ νομίζω, πολλοὶ καὶ τὸν Διότιμον καὶ τὸν Ἀρχεβιάδην καὶ τὸν Χαιρήτιον τὸν ἐπιπόλιον τουτονί, οἳ μεθʼ ἡμέραν μὲν ἐσκυθρωπάκασιν καὶ λακωνίζειν φασὶ καὶ τρίβωνας ἔχουσιν καὶ ἁπλᾶς ὑποδέδενται, ἐπειδὰν δὲ συλλεγῶσιν καὶ μετʼ ἀλλήλων γένωνται, κακῶν καὶ αἰσχρῶν οὐδὲν ἐλλείπουσι.

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Against Conon

1. Many men in Athens in the days of Plato and Demosthenes, as an indication of their contempt for democracy and a protest against the decay of morals, sought to imitate the Spartan severity in dress and manners. Men such as those whom the writer is here depicting would not unnaturally seek by this means to build up a spurious reputation for austerity.

Demosthenes Against Conon 34

Augustus Taber Murray (Translator)

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