[169] I fought in the battle of
Mantineia
, not without honour to myself or credit to the city. I took part in the expeditions to
Euboea
,
1
and at the battle of
Tamynae
2
as a member of the picked corps I so bore myself in danger that I received a wreath of honour then and there, and another at the hands of the people on my arrival home; for I brought the news of the Athenian victory, and Temenides, taxiarch
3
of the tribe Pandionis, who was despatched with me from camp, told here how I had borne myself in the face of the danger that befell us.
On the Embassy. Aeschines. Charles Darwin Adams (Translator). London. 1919.
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