Aeschines, On the Embassy, Charles Darwin Adams (Translator), 150

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[150] But you dared to speak about my wife’s family also—so shameless you are and so inherently thankless, you that have neither affection nor respect for Philodemus,¹ the father of Philon and Epicrates, the man by whose good offices you were enrolled among the men of your deme, as the elder Paeanians know.² But I am amazed if you dare slander Philon, and that, too, in the presence of the most reputable men of Athens, who, having come in here to render their verdict for the best interest of the state, are thinkingmore about the lives we have lived than what we say.

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

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[150] ἐτόλμησας δὲ καὶ περὶ τῶν ἐμῶν κηδεστῶν εἰπεῖν· οὕτως ἀναιδὴς καὶ πόρρωθεν ἀχάριστος εἶ, ὃς Φιλόδημον τὸν Φίλωνος πατέρα καὶ Ἐπικράτους οὐκ ἀγαπᾶς οὐδὲ προσκυνεῖς, διʼ ὃν εἰς τοὺς δημότας ἐνεγράφης, ὡς ἴσασιν οἱ πρεσβύτεροι Παιανιέων. ἐκπέπληγμαι δέ, εἰ σὺ λοιδορεῖν Φίλωνα τολμᾷς, καὶ ταῦτα ἐν τοῖς ἐπιεικεστάτοις Ἀθηναίων, οἳ δεῦρο εἰσεληλύθασι δικάσοντες ἕνεκα τοῦ βελτίστου τῆς πόλεως, καὶ μᾶλλον προσέχουσι τοῖς βίοις ἡμῶν ἢ τοῖς λόγοις.

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1. See Aeschin. 2.152 .

2. Aeschines insinuates that only by some extraordinary favoritism could Demosthenes, with his strain of Scythian blood, ever have been recognized as an Athenian of pure blood, and so enrolled in the citizen-list when he came to manhood.

Aeschines On the Embassy 150

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