Aeschines, On the Embassy, Charles Darwin Adams (Translator), 55

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Decrees

Moreover, he not only made these motions, but afterwards he moved in the senate to assign seats in the theatre for the Dionysia to the ambassadors of Philip when they should arrive.¹ Read this decree also.

Decree

Now read also the testimony of my colleagues in the embassy, that you may know, fellow citizens, that when it is a question of speaking in the city’s behalf, Demosthenes is helpless, but against those who have broken bread with him and shared in the same libations, he is a practised orator.

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

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Current edition Perseus

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).)

Editions (1)

Περὶ τῆς παραπρεσβείας Perseus (The Speeches of Aeschines. Adams, Charles Darwin, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1919 (1958 printing).) — 55 focus

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Ψηφίσματα

οὐ τοίνυν μόνον ταῦτα ἔγραψεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα ἐν τῇ βουλῇ θέαν εἰς τὰ Διονύσια κατανεῖμαι τοῖς πρέσβεσιν, ἐπειδὰν ἥκωσι, τοῖς Φιλίππου. λέγε καὶ τοῦτο τὸ ψήφισμα.

Ψήφισμα

ἀνάγνωθι δὴ καὶ τὴν τῶν συμπρέσβεων μαρτυρίαν, ἵνʼ εἰδῆτε, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, ὅτι Δημοσθένης οὐχ ὑπὲρ τῆς πόλεως εἰπεῖν δύναται, ἀλλʼ ἐπὶ τοὺς συσσίτους καὶ ὁμοσπόνδους μελετᾷ.

Notes on the current edition

On the Embassy

1. It had been expected that the ambassadors of Philip would arrive in time to take up their business before the Great Dionysia; the delay in their arrival necessitated postponing the business until after the festival, a period of about a week.

Aeschines On the Embassy 55

Charles Darwin Adams (Translator)