[128] to manifest and so far from being fabricated is this statement of mine, that you will find that both our city and our forefathers dedicated an altar to Common Report, as one of the greatest gods;
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and you will find that Homer again and again in the
Iliad says, of a thing that has not yet come to pass,
Common Report came to the host; and again you will find Euripides declaring that this god is able not only to make known the living, revealing their true characters, but the dead as well, when he says,
Common Report shows forth the good man, even though he be in the bowels of the earth;
Against Timarchus. Aeschines. Charles Darwin Adams (Translator). London. 1919.
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