[99] On the journey two attendants followed him, carrying sacks of bedding; in one of the sacks, he assured us, was a talent of silver; so that his colleagues were reminded of those old nicknames of his; for the boys used to call him
Batalos, he was so vulgar and obscene then when he was growing out of boyhood and was bringing against his guardians big lawsuits of ten talents each, he was called
Argas;
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now, grown to manhood, he has got also the name that we apply to rascals in general,
Blackmailer.
On the Embassy. Aeschines. Charles Darwin Adams (Translator). London. 1919.
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