Aeschines, On the Embassy, Charles Darwin Adams (Translator), 42

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[42] When I had added my testimony, saying something like this, that Philip had shown excellent memory in his reply to what we had said, and when Ctesiphon , who was the oldest of us, speaking of his own advanced age and the number of his years, added that in all his many years he had never looked upon so charming and lovable a man, then this Sisyphus¹ here clapped his hands and said,

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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[42] συναποφηναμένου δὲ κἀμοῦ τι τοιοῦτον, ὡς καὶ μνημονικῶς εἴποι πρὸς τὰ παρʼ ἡμῶν ῥηθέντα, Κτησιφῶντος δέ, ὅσπερ ἦν ἡμῶν πρεσβύτατος, ὑπερβολήν τινα ἑαυτοῦ παλαιότητος καὶ πλήθους ἐτῶν εἰπόντος, καὶ προσθέντος, ὡς ἐν τοσούτῳ χρόνῳ¹ οὐ πώποθʼ οὕτως ἡδὺν οὐδʼ ἐπαφρόδιτον ἄνθρωπον ἑωρακὼς εἴη, ἀνακροτήσας ὁ Σίσοφος ὅδε τὰς χεῖρας,

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On the Embassy

1. A proverbial name for a cheat.

Aeschines On the Embassy 42

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