Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, Charles Darwin Adams (Translator), 4

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[4] men who have set aside the lawful processes of the courts, and carry their verdicts in the assembly by appeal to passion.¹ The result of all this is that we have ceased to hear that wisest and most judicious of all the proclamations to which the city was once accustomed, Who of the men above fifty years of age wishes to address the people, and then who of the other Athenians in turn. The disorder of the public men can no longer be controlled by the laws, nor by the prytanes, nor by the presiding officers, nor by the presiding tribe, the tenth part of the city.²

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.) — 4 focus

[4] καὶ τὰς κρίσεις τὰς μὲν ἐκ τῶν νόμων καταλελύκασι, τὰς δʼ ἐκ τῶν ψηφισμάτων μετʼ ὀργῆς κρίνουσιν, σεσίγηται μὲν τὸ κάλλιστον καὶ σωφρονέστατον κήρυγμα τῶν ἐν τῇ πόλει· τίς ἀγορεύειν βούλεται τῶν ὑπὲρ πεντήκοντα ἔτη γεγονότων; καὶ πάλιν ἐν μέρει τῶν ἄλλων Ἀθηναίων. τῆς δὲ τῶν ῥητόρων ἀκοσμίας οὐκέτι κρατεῖν δύνανται οὔθʼ οἱ πρυτάνεις οὔθʼ οἱ πρόεδροι οὔθʼ ἡ προεδρεύουσα φυλή, τὸ δέκατον μέρος τῆς πόλεως.

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Against Ctesiphon

1. The popular leaders, confident in their ability to carry the popular assembly by appeal to the passions of the masses, bring cases there in the form of impeachments, etc., which ought to go to the courts, to be decided under the laws.

2. See Aeschin. 1.33 and note.

Aeschines Against Ctesiphon 4

Charles Darwin Adams (Translator)

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