Aeschines, Against Timarchus, ed. Charles Darwin Adams, 138

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[138] οἱ γὰρ πατέρες ἡμῶν, ὅθʼ ὑπὲρ τῶν ἐπιτηδευμάτων καὶ τῶν ἐκ φύσεως ἀναγκαίων ἐνομοθέτουν, ἃ τοῖς ἐλευθέροις ἡγοῦντο εἶναι πρακτέα, ταῦτα τοῖς δούλοις ἀπεῖπον μὴ ποιεῖν. δοῦλον, φησὶν ὁ νόμος, μὴ γυμνάζεσθαι μηδὲ ξηραλοιφεῖν ἐν ταῖς παλαίστραις. καὶ οὐκέτι προσέγραψε· τὸν δʼ ἐλεύθερον ἀλείφεσθαι καὶ γυμνάζεσθαι. ὁπότε γὰρ οἱ νομοθέται τὸ καλὸν τὸ ἐκ τῶν γυμνασίων κατιδόντες ἀπεῖπον τοῖς δούλοις μὴ μετέχειν, τῷ αὐτῷ¹ ἡγοῦντο, ᾧ ἐκείνους ἐκώλυον, τοὺς ἐλευθέρους προτρέπειν.²

Against Timarchus. Aeschines. ed. Charles Darwin Adams. London. 1919.

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Κατὰ Τιμάρχου (Greek) (The Speeches of Aeschines. Adams, Charles Darwin, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1919 (1958 printing).)

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Against Timarchus Perseus (The Speeches of Aeschines. Adams, Charles Darwin, translator. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1919 (1958 printing).) — 138 focus

[138] your fathers, when they were laying down laws to regulate the habits of men and those acts that inevitably flow from human nature, forbade slaves to do those things which they thought ought to be done by free men. A slave, says the law, shall not take exercise or anoint himself in the wrestling-schools. It did not go on to add, But the free man shall anoint himself and take exercise; for when, seeing the good that comes from gymnastics, the lawgivers forbade slaves to take part, they thought that in prohibiting them they were by the same words inviting the free.

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Against Timarchus

1. τῷ αὐτῷ Blass: τῷ αὐτῷ νόμῳ or τούτῳ αὐτῷ λόγῳ MSS.

2. προτρέπειν Cobet: προτρέπειν ἐπὶ τὰ γυμνάσια MSS.

Aeschines Against Timarchus 138

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