Aeschines, Against Timarchus, Charles Darwin Adams (Translator), 103

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[103] then Arizelus, the father of the defendant Timarchus, died also. In the first years thereafter, so long as the defendant was a child, Arignotus received from the guardians¹ all that one could ask. But after Timarchus was enrolled in the citizens’ list, and had come into control of the estate, he thrust aside this old and unfortunate man, his own uncle, and made way with the estate. He gave nothing to Arignotus for his support, but was content to see him, fallen from such wealth, now receiving the alms that the city gives to disabled paupers.²

Against Timarchus. Aeschines. Charles Darwin Adams (Translator). London. 1919.

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Against Timarchus (English) (The Speeches of Aeschines. Adams, Charles Darwin, translator. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1919 (1958 printing).)

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Κατὰ Τιμάρχου Perseus (The Speeches of Aeschines. Adams, Charles Darwin, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1919 (1958 printing).) — 103 focus

[103] ἐπεὶ δὲ καὶ ὁ Ἀρίζηλος ἐτελεύτησεν ὁ Τιμάρχου τουτουὶ πατήρ, τοὺς μὲν πρώτους χρόνους, ἕως παῖς ἦν οὗτος, ἅπαντα τὰ μέτρια ἐγίγνετο παρὰ τῶν ἐπιτρόπων τῷ Ἀριγνώτῳ· ἐπειδὴ δʼ ἐνεγράφη Τίμαρχος εἰς τὸ ληξιαρχικὸν γραμματεῖον καὶ κύριος ἐγένετο τῆς οὐσίας, παρωσάμενος ἄνδρα πρεσβύτην καὶ ἠτυχηκότα, θεῖον ἑαυτοῦ, τήν τε οὐσίαν ἠφάνισε, καὶ τῶν ἐπιτηδείων οὐδὲν ἐδίδου τῷ Ἀριγνώτῳ, ἀλλὰ περιεῖδεν ἐκ τοσαύτης οὐσίας ἐν τοῖς ἀδυνάτοις μισθοφοροῦντα.

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Against Timarchus

1. The same men would act as administrators of the undivided estate and as guardians of the boy during his minority.

2. The Senate also examines the infirm paupers. For there is a law that provides that persons who have property of less than three minas and are so infirm of body as to be unable to do any work, are to be examined by the Senate, and to receive from the state two obols each per day for their support.— Aristot. Const. Ath. 49 . ( Kenyon ’ s trans.).

Aeschines Against Timarchus 103

Charles Darwin Adams (Translator)

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