Aeschines, Against Timarchus, Charles Darwin Adams (Translator), 82

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[82] Now when in the course of his speech he declared that the Areopagus disapproved the proposition of Timarchus, and said, You must not be surprised, fellow citizens, if Timarchus is better acquainted than the Senate of the Areopagus with this lonely spot and the region of the Pnyx, then you applauded and said Autolycus was right, for Timarchus was indeed acquainted with it.¹

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).) — 82 focus

[82] ἐπειδὴ δέ που προϊόντος τοῦ λόγου εἶπεν ὅτι τό γε εἰσήγημα τὸ Τιμάρχου ἀποδοκιμάζει ἡ βουλή, καὶ περὶ τῆς ἐρημίας ταύτης καὶ τοῦ τόπου τοῦ ἐν τῇ Πυκνὶ μὴ θαυμάσητε, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, εἰ Τίμαρχος ἐμπειροτέρως ἔχει τῆς βουλῆς τῆς ἐξ Ἀρείου πάγου, ἀνεθορυβήσατε ὑμεῖς ἐνταῦθα καὶ ἔφατε τὸν Αὐτόλυκον ἀληθῆ λέγειν· εἶναι γὰρ αὐτὸν ἔμπειρον.

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Against Timarchus

1. Evidently the region was a disreputable one, and the houses known as cheap places of ill repute.

Aeschines Against Timarchus 82

Charles Darwin Adams (Translator)

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