Aeschines, On the Embassy, ed. Charles Darwin Adams, 23

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[23] ἡμεῖς δέ, οἷς ἱερὰ καὶ τάφοι προγόνων ὑπάρχουσιν ἐν τῇ πατρίδι, καὶ διατριβαὶ καὶ συνήθειαι μεθʼ ὑμῶν ἐλευθέριοι, καὶ γάμοι κατὰ τοὺς νόμους καὶ κηδεσταὶ καὶ τέκνα, Ἀθήνησι μὲν ἦμεν ἄξιοι τῆς ὑμετέρας πίστεως, οὐ γὰρ ἄν ποτε ἡμᾶς εἵλεσθε, ἐλθόντες δʼ εἰς Μακεδονίαν ἐξαίφνης ἐγενόμεθα προδόται. ὁ δὲ οὐδὲν ἄπρατον ἔχων μέρος τοῦ σώματος,¹ ὡς ὢν Ἀριστείδης,² ὁ δίκαιος ἐπικαλούμενος, δυσχεραίνει καὶ καταπτύει δωροδοκίας.

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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[23] But we, who have shrines and family tombs in our native land, and such life and intercourse with you as belong to free men, and lawful marriage, with its offspring and connections, we while at Athens were worthy of your confidence, or you would never have chosen us, but when we had come to Macedonia we all at once turned traitors! But the man who had not one member of his body left unsold, posing as a second Aristeides the Just, is displeased, and spits on us, as takers of bribes.

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1. Many MSS. add οὐδ’ ὅθεν τὴν φωνὴν προΐεται (cp. § 88): Blass brackets.

2. Ἀριστείδης ὁ τοὺς φόρους τάξας τοῖς Ἕλλησιν MSS., Blass: Scheibe and Weidner omit ὁ . . . Ἕλλησιν, as adapted from Aeschin. 3.258 .

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