Aeschines, Against Timarchus, Charles Darwin Adams (Translator), 163

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[163] Fellow citizens, I hired Timarchus to serve me as a prostitute according to the contract that is deposited with Demosthenes—there is no reason why that statement might not be made!— but he fails to carry out his engagement with me. And now, of course, he proceeds to describe this engagement to the jury, telling what it is that a man of that sort is expected to do. Thereupon will not the man be stoned who has hired an Athenian contrary to the laws, and will he not leave the court-room not only sentenced to pay his fine,¹ but also convicted of wanton outrage?

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).) — 163 focus

[163] ἐμισθωσάμην, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, Τίμαρχον ἑταιρεῖν ἐμαυτῷ κατὰ τὸ γραμματεῖον τὸ παρὰ Δημοσθένει κείμενον· οὐδὲν γὰρ κωλύει οὕτως εἰρῆσθαι· ὁ δʼ οὐ ποιεῖ μοι τὰ ὡμολογημένα. καὶ ταῦτʼ ἤδη διέξεισι δηλονότι πρὸς τοὺς δικαστάς, λέγων ἃ χρὴ τὸν τοιοῦτον ποιεῖν. ἔπειτα οὐ καταλευσθήσεται ὁ μισθούμενος τὸν Ἀθηναῖον παρὰ τοὺς νόμους, καὶ προσοφλὼν ἄπεισιν ἐκ τοῦ δικαστηρίου οὐ τὴν ἐπωβελίαν μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ πολλὴν¹ ὕβριν;

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Against Timarchus

1. In certain classes of private suits, if the plaintiff failed to receive one-fifth of the votes of the jury, he had to pay to the defendant one-sixth of the sum for which he had sued (one obol in the drachma (= six obols), hence the name ἐπωβελία).

Aeschines Against Timarchus 163

Charles Darwin Adams (Translator)

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