Aeschines, On the Embassy, ed. Charles Darwin Adams, 144

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[144] ἐτόλμησε δʼ εἰπεῖν ὡς ἐγὼ τοῖς ἐμαυτοῦ λόγοις περιπίπτω. φησὶ γάρ με εἰπεῖν, ὅτʼ ἔκρινον Τίμαρχον, ὅτι πάντες κατʼ αὐτοῦ τὴν τῆς πορνείας φήμην παρειλήφασι, τὸν δʼ Ἡσίοδον ποιητὴν ἀγαθὸν ὄντα λέγειν,

φήμη δʼ οὔτις πάμπαν ἀπόλλυται, ἥντινα λαοὶ

πολλοὶ φημίξωσι·¹ θεός νυ τίς ἐστι καὶ αὐτή.

Hes. WD 763-4 τὴν δʼ αὐτὴν ταύτην θεὸν ἥκειν νῦν κατηγοροῦσαν ἐμοῦ· πάντας γὰρ λέγειν ὡς χρήματα ἔχω παρὰ Φιλίππου.

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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On the Embassy Perseus (The Speeches of Aeschines. Adams, Charles Darwin, translator. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1919 (1958 printing).) — 144 focus

[144] But he dared to say that I am tripped up by my own words. For he says¹ that when I was prosecuting Timarchus I said that his lewdness was a matter of common report, and that Hesiod, a good poet, says, But Common Report dies never, the voice that tongues of many men do utter. She also is divine.² He says that this same god comes now and accuses me, for everybody says, according to him, that I have got money from Philip.

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On the Embassy

1. φημίξωσι Baiter and Sauppe. Here and in Aeschin. 1.129 the MSS. have varying forms of the verb (so in the MSS. of Hesiod).

Aeschines On the Embassy 144

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