Aeschines On the Embassy 39

ed. Charles Darwin Adams

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[39] ἐπειδὴ δὲ κατέστρεψεν εἰς φιλανθρωπίαν τοὺς λόγους, καὶ τὸ συκοφάντημα ὃ προειρήκει κατʼ ἐμοῦ πρὸς τοὺς συμπρέσβεις οὗτος, ὡς ἐσομένου πολέμου καὶ διαφορᾶς αἰτίου, διέπιπτεν αὐτῷ, ἐνταῦθα ἤδη καὶ παντελῶς ἐξιστάμενος αὑτοῦ καταφανὴς ἦν, ὥστε καὶ κληθέντων ἡμῶν ἐπὶ ξένια δεινῶς ἀσχημονεῖν.

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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[39] But when Philip turned to expressions of friendship, and the bottom dropped out of the slander which this Demosthenes had previously uttered against me before our fellow ambassadors, that I was going to be the cause of disagreement and war, then indeed it was plain to see that he was altogether beside himself, so that even when we were invited to dinner he behaved with shameful rudeness.

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