[189] And yet I am told that he intends to say that I am unfair in holding up his deeds for comparison with those of our fathers. For he will say that Philammon the boxer was crowned at
Olympia
, not as having defeated Glaucus, that famous man of ancient days, but because he beat the antagonists of his own time;
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as though you did not know that in the case of boxers the contest is of one man against another, but for those who claim a crown, the standard is virtue itself; since it is for this that they are crowned. For the herald must not lie when he makes his proclamation in the theater before the Greeks. Do not, then, recount to us how you have been a better citizen than Pataecion,
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but first attain unto nobility of character, and then call on the people for their grateful acknowledgment.
Against Ctesiphon. Aeschines. Charles Darwin Adams (Translator). London. 1919.
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