Aeschines, On the Embassy, Charles Darwin Adams (Translator), 167

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[167] But he spoke, I believe, about service in the field, and named me the fine soldier. But I think, in view of my present peril rather than of his slander, I may without offence speak of these matters also. For where, or when, or to whom, shall I speak of them, if I led this day go by? As soon as I passed out of boyhood I became one of the frontier guards of this land for two years.¹ As witnesses to this statement, I will call my fellow cadets and our officers.

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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[167] ἐμνήσθη δέ που περὶ στρατείας, καὶ καλὸν στρατιώτην ἐμὲ ὠνόμασεν. ἐγὼ δὲ οὐχ ἕνεκα τῆς τούτου βλασφημίας, ἀλλὰ τοῦ παρόντος κινδύνου προνοούμενος, καὶ περὶ τούτων ἀνεπίφθονον λέγειν εἶναί μοι νομίζω· ποῦ γὰρ ἢ πότε αὐτῶν ἢ πρὸς τίνας, παραλιπὼν τήνδε τὴν ἡμέραν, μνησθήσομαι; ἐκ παίδων μὲν γὰρ ἀπαλλαγεὶς περίπολος τῆς χώρας ταύτης ἐγενόμην δύʼ ἔτη, καὶ τούτων ὑμῖν τοὺς συνεφήβους καὶ τοὺς ἄρχοντας¹ ἡμῶν μάρτυρας παρέξομαι·

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1. the young Athenian citizen, coming of legal age at eighteen, was required to serve two years in the cadet corps, stationed the first year at the Peiraeus, and on frontier posts the second.

Aeschines On the Embassy 167

Charles Darwin Adams (Translator)

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