Aeschines, On the Embassy, Charles Darwin Adams (Translator), 157

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[157] How outrageous that when a man whose business it is to act the parts of a Carion or of a Xanthias¹ showed himself so noble and generous, Aeschines, the counsellor of the greatest city, the adviser of the Ten Thousand of Arcadia , did not restrain his insolence, but in drunken heat, when Xenodocus, one of the picked corps of Philip, was entertaining us, seized a captive woman by the hair, and took a strap and flogged her!

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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[157] ταῦθʼ ὑποθεὶς ἐπεῖπεν ἐντεινάμενος ταύτην τὴν ὀξεῖαν καὶ ἀνόσιον φωνήν, ὡς δεινόν, εἰ ὁ μὲν τοὺς Καρίωνας καὶ Ξανθίας ὑποκρινόμενος οὕτως εὐγενὴς καὶ μεγαλόψυχος γένοιτο, ἐγὼ δʼ ὁ τῆς μεγίστης σύμβουλος πόλεως, ὁ τοὺς μυρίους Ἀρκάδων νουθετῶν, οὐ κατάσχοιμι τὴν ὓβριν, ἀλλὰ παραθερμανθείς, ὅθʼ ἡμᾶς εἱστία Ξενόδοκος τῶν ἑταίρων τις τῶν Φιλιππου, ἕλκοιμι τῶν τριχῶν καὶ λαβὼν ῥυτῆρα μαστιγοίην αἰχμάλωτον γυναῖκα.

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1. Satyrus, the comic actor, would often take slave parts, for which Carion and Xanthias were among the traditional names.

Aeschines On the Embassy 157

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