Aeschines, On the Embassy, ed. Charles Darwin Adams, 62

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[62]

Ψήφισμα

τῶν μὲν ψηφισμάτων ἀμφοτέρων ἀκηκόατε,¹ ὑφʼ ὧν ἐξελέγχεται Δημοσθένης τὰς ἀποδημούσας πρεσβείας ἐπιδημεῖν φάσκων, καὶ βουλομένων ὑμῶν ἀκροάσασθαι, τὸ τῶν συμμάχων ἄκυρον πεποιηκὼς δόγμα. οἱ μὲν γὰρ ἀπεφήναντο ἀναμεῖναι² τὰς Ἑλληνικὰς πρεσβείας, Δημοσθένης δὲ οὐ λόγῳ μόνον κεκώλυκε περιμεῖναι, ὁ πάντων αἴσχιστα καὶ τάχιστα μετατιθέμενος, ἀλλʼ ἔργῳ καὶ ψηφίσματι, προστάξας ἤδη βεβουλεῦσθαι.

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).) — 62 focus

[62]

Decree

You have heard both decrees; by them Demosthenes is convicted of saying that the ambassadors were here, when they were still abroad, and of having made void the decree of the allies, when you wished to comply with it. For it was their judgment that we should wait for the ambassadors from the other states of Hellas but Demosthenes is responsible for having prevented your waiting for them, not only by his words, most shamelessly shifty of all men, but by his act and his decree, in which he required us to make our decision immediately.

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On the Embassy

1. The MSS. have ὦ Ἀθηιαῖοι before or after the verb: Weidner omits.

2. ἀναμεῖναι Cobet: the MSS. have ἀναμεῖναι τὴν πόλιν (one has τῇ πόλει).

Aeschines On the Embassy 62

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