Aeschines, Against Timarchus, Charles Darwin Adams (Translator), 59

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[59] burst into the house where Pittalacus was living. First they smashed the implements of his trade and tossed them into the street—sundry dice¹ and dice-boxes, and his gaming utensils in general; they killed the quails and cocks, so well beloved by the miserable man; and finally they tied Pittalacus himself to the pillar and gave him an inhuman whipping, which lasted until even the neighbors heard the uproar.

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).) — 59 focus

[59] εἰσπηδήσαντες νύκτωρ εἰς τὴν οἰκίαν οὗ ᾤκει ὁ Πιττάλακος, πρῶτον μὲν συνέτριβον τὰ σκευάρια καὶ διερρίπτουν εἰς τὴν ὁδόν, ἀστραγάλους τέ τινας διασείστους καὶ φιμοὺς καὶ κυβευτικὰ ἕτερα ὄργανα, καὶ τοὺς ὄρτυγας καὶ τοὺς ἀλεκτρυόνας, οὓς ἠγάπα ὁ τρισκακοδαίμων ἄνθρωπος, ἀπέκτειναν, τὸ δὲ τελευταῖον δήσαντες πρὸς τὸν κίονα αὐτὸν τὸν Πιττάλακον ἐμαστίγουν τὰς ἐξ ἀνθρώπων πληγὰς οὕτω πολὺν χρόνον, ὥστε καὶ τοὺς γείτονας αἰσθέσθαι τῆς κραυγῆς.

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Against Timarchus

1. Probably the scholiast is right in explaining ἀστραγάλους διασείστους shaken astragali, as the gamester’ s name for a sort of dice. Perhaps the hearers would understand that they were loaded dice. Benseler, however, approves Dorville’ s explanation, that these dice had been many a time before now shaken between Pittalacus and the rascals who are now tossing them into the street.

Aeschines Against Timarchus 59

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