Aeschines, On the Embassy, Charles Darwin Adams (Translator), 161

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[161] The peace failed to please some of our public men. Then ought they not to have opposed it at the time, instead of putting me on trial now? Certain men who were getting rich out of the war from your war-taxes and the revenues of the state, have now been stopped; for peace does not feed laziness. Shall those, then, who are not wronged, but are themselves wronging the city, punish the man who was sponsor for the peace,¹1 and will you, who are benefited by it, leave in the lurch men who have proved themselves useful to the commonwealth?

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

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[161] οὐκ ἤρεσκέ τισι τῶν ῥητόρων ἡ εἰρήνη· ἔπειτα οὐ τότε ἀντιλέγειν αὐτοὺς ἐχρῆν, ἀλλὰ μὴ νῦν ἐμὲ κρίνειν; ἐπλούτουν τινὲς ἐκ τοῦ πολέμου, ἀπὸ τῶν ὑμετέρων εἰσφορῶν καὶ τῶν δημοσίων προσόδων, νῦν δὲ πέπαυνται· εἰρήνη γὰρ ἀργίαν οὐ τρέφει· ἔπειτα οἱ μὲν οὐκ ἀδικούμενοι, ἀλλʼ ἀδικοῦντες τὴν πόλιν, τιμωρήσονται τὸν προστάντα τῆς εἰρήνης, οἱ ὠφελούμενοι τοὺς χρησίμους εἰς τὰ κοινὰ γενομένους¹ ἐγκαταλείψετε;

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1. Philocrates, the prime mover in the peace had already gone into banishment, afraid to stand trial.

Aeschines On the Embassy 161

Charles Darwin Adams (Translator)

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