Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, Charles Darwin Adams (Translator), 108

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[108] The Pythia replied that they must fight against the Cirrhaeans and the Cragalidae day and night, bitterly ravage their country, enslave the inhabitants, and dedicate the land to the Pythian Apollo and Artemis and Leto and Athena Pronaea,¹ that for the future it lie entirely uncultivated; that they must not till this land themselves nor permit another.

Now when they had received this oracle, the Amphictyons voted, on motion of Solon of Athens , a man able as a law-giver and versed in poetry and philosophy, to march against the accursed men according to the oracle of the god.

Against Ctesiphon. Aeschines. Charles Darwin Adams (Translator). London. 1919.

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Against Ctesiphon (English) (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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[108] καὶ αὐτοῖς ἀναιρεῖ ἡ Πυθία πολεμεῖν Κιρραίοις καὶ Κραγαλίδαις πάντʼ ἤματα καὶ πάσας νύκτας, καὶ τὴν χώραν αὐτῶν ἐκπορθήσαντας καὶ αὐτοὺς ἀνδραποδισαμένους ἀναθεῖναι τῷ Ἀπόλλωνι τῷ Πυθίῳ καὶ τῇ Ἀρτέμιδι καὶ τῇ¹ Λητοῖ καὶ Ἀθηνᾷ Προναίᾳ² ἐπὶ πάσῃ ἀεργίᾳ, καὶ ταύτην τὴν χώραν μήτʼ αὐτοὺς ἐργάζεσθαι μήτʼ ἄλλον ἐᾶν.

λαβόντες δὲ τὸν χρησμὸν τοῦτον οἱ Ἀμφικτύονες ἐψηφίσαντο Σόλωνος εἰπόντος Ἀθηναίου τὴν γνώμην, ἀνδρὸς καὶ νομοθετῆσαι δυνατοῦ καὶ περὶ ποίησιν καὶ φιλοσοφίαν διατετριφότος, ἐπιστρατεύειν ἐπὶ τοὺς ἐναγεῖς κατὰ τὴν μαντείαν τοῦ θεοῦ·

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1. The MSS. read Προνοίᾳ, Goddess of Forethought. But undoubtedly the form in the ancient oracle was Προναίᾳ, a name peculiar to the Athena of Delphi , and arising from the fact that there she was the Athena of the Foretemple ( προ-ναός), for her temple lay in front of that of Apollo.

Aeschines Against Ctesiphon 108

Charles Darwin Adams (Translator)

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