Aeschines, Against Timarchus, Charles Darwin Adams (Translator), 190

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[190] Many men of this sort you could find who have overthrown cities and have fallen into the greatest misfortunes themselves. For you must not imagine, fellow citizens, that the impulse to wrong doing is from the gods; nay, rather, it is from the wickedness of men; nor that ungodly men are, as in tragedy, driven and chastised by the Furies¹ with blazing torches in their hands.

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).) — 190 focus

[190] πλείστους δʼ ἂν εὕροιτʼ ἐκ τῶν τοιούτων ἀνθρώπων πόλεις ἀνατετροφότας καὶ ταῖς μεγίσταις συμφοραῖς αὐτοὺς περιπεπτωκότας. μὴ γὰρ οἴεσθε, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι,¹ τὰς τῶν ἀδικημάτων ἀρχὰς ἀπὸ θεῶν, ἀλλʼ οὐκ ἀπʼ² ἀνθρώπων ἀσελγείας γίγνεσθαι, μηδὲ τοὺς ἠσεβηκότας, καθάπερ ἐν ταῖς τραγῳδίαις, Ποινὰς ἐλαύνειν καὶ κολάζειν δᾳσὶν ἡμμέναις·

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Against Timarchus

1. The Furies (Poenae) are gods of punishment, more definitely personified in the Erinyes. The hearers would be reminded of the chasing of Orestes in the Eumenidesof Aeschylus.

Aeschines Against Timarchus 190

Charles Darwin Adams (Translator)

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