Aeschines, On the Embassy, ed. Charles Darwin Adams, 9

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[9] ὃν δʼ οὕτως ἀτιμάζει, πάλιν ἐκ μεταβολῆς, ὅπου ἂν τύχῃ,¹ ὥσπερ Ἀλκιβιάδην ἢ Θεμιστοκλέα κρίνων, οἳ πλεῖστον τῶν Ἑλλήνων δόξῃ διήνεγκαν, ἀνῃρηκέναι μὲν αἰτιᾶται² τὰς ἐν Φωκεῦσι πόλεις, ἀπηλλοτριωκέναι δʼ ὑμῶν τὸν ἐπὶ Θράκης τόπον, ἐκβεβληκέναι δὲ τῆς ἀρχῆς Κερσοβλέπτην, ἄνδρα φίλον καὶ σύμμαχον τῆς πόλεως.

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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[9] and after treating a man with such contempt, later, when it suits his whim, he turns about, and as though he were accusing an Alcibiades or a Themistocles, the most famous men among all the Greeks, he proceeds to charge that same man with having destroyed the cities in Phocis , with having lost you the Thracian coast, with having expelled from his kingdom Cersobleptes, a friend and ally of the city.

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1. ὅπου ἂν τύχῃ Scholiast: ὅπου τύχῃ or ὅπου τύχοι MSS.

2. αἰτιᾶται Cobet: αἰτιᾶταί με MSS.

Aeschines On the Embassy 9

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