Aeschines, Against Timarchus, Charles Darwin Adams (Translator), 84

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[84] and when he spoke of the house sites and the tanks you simply couldn’ t restrain yourselves.¹ Thereupon Pyrrandrus came forward to censure you, and he asked the people if they were not ashamed of themselves for laughing in the presence of the Senate of the Areopagus. But you drove him off the platform, replying, We know, Pyrrandrus, that we ought not to laugh in their presence, but so strong is the truth that it prevails—over all the calculations of men.

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).) — 84 focus

[84] ὡς δʼ ἐπεμνήσθη τῶν οἰκοπέδων καὶ τῶν λάκκων, οὐδʼ ἀναλαβεῖν αὑτοὺς ἐδύνασθε. ἔνθα δὴ καὶ παρέρχεται Πύρρανδρος ἐπιτιμήσων ὑμῖν, καὶ ἤρετο τὸν δῆμον, εἰ οὐκ αἰσχύνοιντο γελῶντες παρούσης τῆς βουλῆς τῆς ἐξ Ἀρείου πάγου. ὑμεῖς δʼ ἐξεβάλλετε αὐτὸν ὑπολαμβάνοντες· ἴσμεν, ὦ Πύρρανδρε, ὅτι οὐ δεῖ γελᾶν τούτων ἐναντίον· ἀλλʼ οὕτως ἰσχυρόν ἐστιν ἡ ἀλήθεια, ὥστε πάντων ἐπικρατεῖν τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων λογισμῶν.

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Against Timarchus

1. It is not unlikely that the vulgar crowd made merry over the word οἰκοπέδων as sounding like ὀρχιδέδων(testicles), and λάκκων like λακκοπέδων (scrota).

Aeschines Against Timarchus 84

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