Aeschines, On the Embassy, Charles Darwin Adams (Translator), 98

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[98] Now not a word was said about making the journey along the Thracian coast;¹ for the decree did not prescribe any such journey, but simply that we should receive the oaths and transact certain other business, nor could we have accomplished anything if we had gone, for Cersobleptes’ fate had already been decided, as you heard a moment ago; for there is not a word of truth in what he has said, but, at a loss for any true charge, he resorts to these prodigious lies.

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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[98] περὶ μὲν οὖν τῆς ἐπὶ Θρᾴκης ὁδοῦ οὐκ ἐγένετο μνεία· οὔτε¹ γὰρ τὸ ψήφισμα τοῦθʼ ἡμῖν προσέταττεν, ἀλλʼ ἀπολαβεῖν μόνον τοὺς ὅρκους καὶ ἄλλʼ ἄττα, οὔτʼ ἐλθόντας πράττειν οὐδὲν ἐνεδέχετο, τῶν περὶ Κερσοβλέπτην ἤδη γεγενημένων, ὡς ἀρτίως ἠκούσατε, οὔθʼ οὗτος οὐδὲν ἀληθὲς εἶπεν, ἀλλὰ ψεύδεται καὶ κατηγορεῖν οὐδὲν ἀληθὲς ἔχων τερατεύεται.

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On the Embassy

1. The journey which Demosthenes, in the speech for the prosecution, had said ought to have been made in order to forestall Philip’s conquests there.

Aeschines On the Embassy 98

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