Aeschines, On the Embassy, Charles Darwin Adams (Translator), 158

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[158] If you had believed him, or Aristophanes had helped him out in his his against me, I should have been destroyed under shameful accusations. Will you therefore harbour longer in your midst guilt that is so fraught with doom to itself—God grant it be not to the city!—and will you, who purify your assembly,¹ offer the prayers that are contained in your decrees on motion of this man, as you send your troops out by land or sea? You know the words of Hesiod:

Ofttimes whole peoples suffer from one man

Whose deeds are sinful and whose purpose base.

Hes. WD 240

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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[158] οὐκοῦν εἰ ὑμεῖς αὐτῷ ἐπιστεύσατε, ἢ Ἀριστοφάνης μου συγκατεψεύσατο, ἐπʼ αἰσχραῖς αἰτίαις ἀπωλόμην ἄν.¹ ἐάσετε οὖν τὸ τοιοῦτον αὑτοῦ² προστρόπαιον, μὴ γὰρ δὴ τῆς πόλεώς γε, ἐν³ ὑμῖν ἀναστρέφεσθαι; καὶ τὴν μὲν ἐκκλησίαν καθαίρετε, ἐν δὲ τοῖς ψηφίσμασι διὰ τούτου τὰς εὐχὰς ποιήσεσθε, καὶ στρατιὰν ἢ πεζὴν ἢ ναυτικὴν ἐκπέμψετε; καὶ μὴν ὅ γε Ἡσίοδος λέγει,

πολλάκι τοι ξύμπασα πόλις κακοῦ ἀνδρὸς ἀπηύρα,

ὅς κεν ἀλιτραίνῃ καὶ ἀτάσθαλα μηχανάαται.

Hes. WD 240-241

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1. The Athenian assembly was regularly opened with a sacrifice of purification and prayer.

Aeschines On the Embassy 158

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