Aeschines, On the Embassy, Charles Darwin Adams (Translator), 112

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[112] And finally he carefully corrected those other statements:¹ I did not say that you are beautiful, for a woman is the most beautiful of all beings; nor that you are a wonderful drinker, for that is a compliment for a sponge, in my opinion; nor that you have a remarkable memory, for I think such praise belongs to the professional sophist. But not to prolong the story, he said such things in the presence of the ambassadors from almost the whole of Hellas , that laughter arose such as you seldom hear.

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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[112] ἐκεῖνα δʼ ἤδη καὶ σφόδρα διωρθοῦτο· οὐκ εἶπον, ὡς καλὸς εἶ· γυνὴ γὰρ τῶν ὄντων ἐστὶ κάλλιστον· οὐδʼ ὡς δεινὸς πιεῖν,¹ σπογγιᾶς τὸν ἔπαινον ὑπολαμβάνων τοῦτον εἶναι· οὐδʼ ὡς μνημονικός, σοφιστοῦ τὰ τοιαῦτα νομίζων ἐργολαβοῦντος ἐγκώμια εἶναι. ἵνα δὲ μὴ μακρολογῶ, τοιαῦτʼ ἦν ἃ ἔλεγε παρόντων τῶν πρέσβεων ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν ἐξ ἁπάσης τῆς Ἑλλάδος, ἐφʼ οἷς γέλωτες οὐχ οἱ τυχόντες ἐγίγνοντο.

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On the Embassy

1. The statements that his colleagues had made to the assembly on their return from the first embassy, as related in Aeschin. 2.47 and Aeschin. 2.52 .

Aeschines On the Embassy 112

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