Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, Charles Darwin Adams (Translator), 112

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[112] As a proof of this, let the oracle of the god be read; hear the curse; call to mind the oaths that your fathers swore together with all the other Amphictyons.

The Oracle

[Ye may not hope to capture town nor tower,

Till dark-eyed Amphitrite’s waves shall break

And roar against Apollo’s sacred shore.]¹

Paus. 10.7.6

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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Κατά Κτησιφώντος Perseus (The Speeches of Aeschines. Adams, Charles Darwin, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1919.) — 112 focus

[112] ὅτι δʼ ἀληθῆ λέγω, ἀνάγνωθι τὴν τοῦ θεοῦ μαντείαν. ἀκούσατε τῆς ἀρᾶς. ἀναμνήσθητε τῶν ὅρκων, οὓς ὑμῶν οἱ πρόγονοι μετὰ τῶν Ἀμφικτυόνων συνώμοσαν.

Μαντεία

[οὐ πρὶν τῆσδε πόληος ἐρείψετε πύργον ἑλόντες,

πρίν γε θεοῦ τεμένει κυανώπιδος Ἀμφιτρίτης

κῦμα ποτικλύζῃ κελαδοῦν ἱεραῖσιν ἐπʼ ἀκταῖς.]

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Against Ctesiphon

1. The oracle given in the MSS. is evidently not the one that Aeschines cited. Some ancient editor has inserted it, finding it in Pausanias’ account of these events.

Aeschines Against Ctesiphon 112

Charles Darwin Adams (Translator)

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