Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, ed. Charles Darwin Adams, 24

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[24] πρὸς μὲν οὖν τὰς κενὰς¹ προφάσεις ἃς οὗτοι προφασιοῦνται, μέχρι δεῦρο εἰρήσθω μοι· ὅτι δὲ ὄντως ἦν ὑπεύθυνος ὁ Δημοσθένης, ὅθʼ οὗτος εἰσήνεγκε τὸ Ψήφισμα, ἄρχων μὲν τὴν ἐπὶ τὸ θεωρικὸν² ἀρχὴν, ἄρχων δὲ τὴν τῶν τειχοποιῶν, οὐδετέρας δέ πω τῶν ἀρχῶν τούτων λόγον ὑμῖν οὐδʼ εὐθύνας δεδωκώς, ταῦτʼ ἤδη πειράσομαι ὑμᾶς διδάσκειν ἐκ τῶν δημοσίων γραμμάτων. καί μοι ἀνάγνωθι, ἐπὶ τίνος ἄρχοντος καὶ ποίου μηνὸς καὶ ἐν τίνι ἡμέρᾳ καὶ ἐν ποίᾳ ἐκκλησίᾳ ἐχειροτονήθη Δημοσθένης τὴν ἀρχὴν τὴν ἐπὶ τὸ θεωρικόν.³

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οὐκοῦν εἰ μηδὲν ἔτι περαιτέρω⁴ δείξαιμι, δικαίως ἂν ἁλίσκοιτο Κτησιφῶν· αἱρεῖ γὰρ αὐτὸν οὐχ ἡ κατηγορία ἡ ἐμή, ἀλλὰ τὰ δημόσια γράμματα.

Against Ctesiphon. Aeschines. ed. Charles Darwin Adams. London. 1919.

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

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Against Ctesiphon Perseus (The Speeches of Aeschines. Adams, Charles Darwin, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1919 (1958 printing).) — 24 focus

[24] As an answer then to the empty pretexts that they will bring forward, let what I have said suffice. But that Demosthenes was in fact subject to audit at the time when the defendant made his motion, since he held the office of Superintendent of the Theoric Fund¹ as well as the office of Commissioner for the Repair of Walls, and at that time bad not rendered to you his account and reckoning for either office, this I will now try to show you from the public records. Read, if you please, in what archonship and in what month and on what day and in what assembly Demosthenes was elected a Superintendent of the Theoric Fund.

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If now I should prove nothing beyond this, Ctesiphon would be justly convicted, for it is not my complaint that convicts him, but the public records.

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Against Ctesiphon

1. κενὰς Stephanus: κοινὰς MSS.

2. τὸ θεωρικὸν Blass, comparing Aristotle, Aristot. Const. Ath. 43.1 and Aristot. Const. Ath. 47.2 : τῷ θεωρικῷ MSS.

3. τὸ θεωρικόν Blass: τῷ θεωρικῷ MSS.

4. περαιτέρω Weidner: τούτου περαιτέρω or μεραιτέρω τούτου MSS.

Aeschines Against Ctesiphon 24

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