Aeschines, On the Embassy, Charles Darwin Adams (Translator), 10

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[10] and he undertook to liken me to Dionysius, the tyrant of Sicily , and vehemently and with loud cries he called upon you to be on your guard against me; and he related the dream of the priestess in Sicily .¹ Then, after all this exaggeration, he begrudged me the credit even for what he had slanderously charged me with accomplishing, and ascribed it all, not to my words, but to the arms of Philip.

On the Embassy. Aeschines. Charles Darwin Adams (Translator). London. 1919.

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On the Embassy (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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[10] ἐνεχείρησε δʼ ἀπεικάζειν με Διονυσίῳ τῷ Σικελίας τυράννῳ, καὶ μετὰ σπουδῆς καὶ κραυγῆς πολλῆς παρεκελεύσαθʼ ὑμῖν φυλάξασθαι, καὶ τὸ τῆς ἱερείας ἐνύπνιον τῆς ἐν Σικελίᾳ διηγήσατο. οὕτω δʼ ἄνω τὸ πρᾶγμα ἐξάρας, ἐφθόνησέ μου ταῖς διαβολαῖς, τὰς αἰτίας ἀνατιθεὶς τῶν πεπραγμένων οὐ τοῖς ἐμοῖς λόγοις, ἀλλὰ τοῖς ὅπλοις τοῖς Φιλίππου.

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1. Neither the comparison with Dionysius nor the story of the dream was retained by Demosthenes when he revised his speech for publication.

Aeschines On the Embassy 10

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