Aeschines, Against Timarchus, ed. Charles Darwin Adams, 48

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[48] ἂν δʼ ἄρα καὶ τούτους πείσωσι μὴ μαρτυρεῖν, ὡς οὐκ οἴομαι· εἰ δὲ μή, ἀλλʼ οὐχ ἅπαντάς γε·¹ ἐκεῖνό γε οὐ μήποτε δυνήσονται, ² ἀφελέσθαι τὴν ἀλήθειαν, οὐδὲ τὴν ἐν τῇ πόλει περὶ Τιμάρχου φήμην, ἣν οὐκ ἐγὼ τούτῳ παρεσκεύασα, ἀλλʼ αὐτὸς οὗτος ἑαυτῷ. οὕτω γὰρ χρὴ καθαρὸν εἶναι τὸν βίον τοῦ σώφρονος ἀνδρός, ὥστε μηδʼ ἐπιδέχεσθαι δόξαν αἰτίας πονηρᾶς.

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).) — 48 focus

[48] But even if they do persuade these men also not to testify—I do not expect they will, at any rate not all of them—one thing at least they will never succeed in accomplishing: they will never hush up the truth, nor blot out Timarchus’ reputation among his fellow citizens—a reputation which he owes to no act of mine, but to his own conduct. For the life of a virtuous man ought to be so clean that it will not admit even of a suspicion of wrong-doing.

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Against Timarchus

1. ἅπαντάς γε Blass, transposing γε, which some MSS. have after οἴομαι.

2. οὐ μήποτε δυνήσονται Emperius: οὐδὲ μήποτε δύνωνται (or δυνήσονται) or οὐδέποτε δυνήσονται MSS.

Aeschines Against Timarchus 48

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