Aeschines, On the Embassy, ed. Charles Darwin Adams, 64

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[64] ὅτι δʼ οὐ ψευδῆ μόνον κατηγόρηκεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀδύνατα γενέσθαι, μίαν μὲν αὐτὸς καθʼ αὑτοῦ¹ μαρτυρίαν μαρτυρήσει, ἑτέραν δὲ πάντες Ἀθηναῖοι καὶ ὑμεῖς ἀναμιμνῃσκόμενοι, τρίτην δὲ ἡ τῆς αἰτίας ἀπιθανότης, τετάρτην δὲ ἀνὴρ ἀξιόλογος, εἷς τῶν πολιτευομένων, Ἀμύντωρ, ᾧ ψήφισμα² ἐπεδείξατο Δημοσθένης καὶ ἀνεκοινοῦτο, εἰ δῷ τῷ γραμματεῖ, οὐχ ὑπεναντία,³ ἀλλὰ ταὐτὰ⁴ γεγραφὼς Φιλοκράτει.

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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[64] But that what he has laid to my charge is not only false, but a thing that could not have happened, he himself shall furnish one proof, a witness against himself; another proof all the Athenians shall furnish, and your own memory; a third, the incredibility of the charge; and the fourth, a man of repute, who is active in public affairs, Amyntor, to whom Demosthenes exhibited the draft of a decree, asking him whether he should advise him to hand it to the clerk, a decree not contrary in its provisions to that of Philocrates, but identical with it.

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1. αὑτοῦ Cobet: αὑτοῦ Δημοσθένης MSS.

2. ψήφισμα Blass: τὸ ψήφισμα MSS.

3. ὑπεναντία Blass: ὑπεναντίαν or ὑπεναντίον MSS.

4. ταὐτὰ Blass: ταὐτὸν MSS.

Aeschines On the Embassy 64

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