Aeschines, On the Embassy, ed. Charles Darwin Adams, 122

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[122] ἀλλʼ ἀπαγγείλαντος πρὸς τὸν δῆμον ἐμοῦ τοὺς περὶ τῶν Ἀμφικτυόνων λόγους καὶ Βοιωτῶν, οὐχ ὥσπερ νῦν συντέμνοντος οὐδʼ ἐπειγομένου, ἀλλʼ ὡς ἐδυνάμην κατὰ ῥῆμα ἀκριβέστατα, καὶ τοῦ δήμου σφόδρα ἀποδεχομένου, παρακληθεὶς ὑπʼ ἐμοῦ μετὰ τῶν ἄλλων συμπρέσβεων καὶ ἐρωτώμενος,¹ εἰ τἀληθῆ καὶ ταὐτὰ ἀπαγγέλλω πρὸς Ἀθηναίους ἅπερ πρὸς Φίλιππον εἶπον, πάντων μαρτυρούντων καὶ ἐπαινούντων με τῶν συμπρέσβεων, ἐπαναστὰς ἐπὶ πᾶσιν οὐκ ἔφη με, ὥσπερ ἐκεῖ,² οὕτως ἐν τῷ παρόντι λέγειν, ἀλλʼ ἐκεῖ διπλασίῳ³ ἄμεινον. καὶ τούτων ὑμεῖς οἱ τὴν ψῆφον μέλλοντες φέρειν ἐστέ μοι μάρτυρες.

On the Embassy. Aeschines. ed. Charles Darwin Adams. London. 1919.

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

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[122] and not only that, but when I had reported to the people what I had said about the Amphictyons and Boeotians, not briefly and rapidly as now, but as nearly word for word as possible, and when the people heartily applauded, I called upon him together with the other ambassadors, and asked them whether my report was true, and identical with what I had said to Philip; and when all my colleagues had testified and praised me, after them all Demosthenes arose and said: No, I had not to-day been speaking as I spoke there, but that I spoke twice as well there. You who are going to give the verdict are my witnesses of this.

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On the Embassy

1. ἐρωτώμενος Cobet: διερωτώμενος MSS.

2. After ἐκεῖ the MSS. have εἶπον · Blass brackets εἶπον.

3. διπλασίῳ Bekker: διπλασίως MSS.

Aeschines On the Embassy 122

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