Pseudo-Lucian, Demosthenis encomium, ed. Karl Jacobitz, 39

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τοιοῦτοί τινες ἦσαν αὐτῷ συνεχεῖς περὶ Δημοσθένους οἱ λόγοι· καὶ πρός γε τοὺς λέγοντας ὡς μέγαν ἔχοι τὸν 520 Ἀθηναίων δῆμον ἀνταγωνιστήν, Ἐμοὶ Δημοσθένης μόνος, εἶπεν, ἀνταγωνιστής, Ἀθηναῖοι δὲ Δημοσθένην οὐκ ἔχοντες Αἰνιᾶνές εἰσι καὶ Θετταλοί. καὶ πρέσβεις ὁπότε πρὸς τὰς πόλεις πέμποι, τῶν μὲν ἄλλων ῥητόρων εἴ τινας ἡ τῶν Ἀθηναίων πόλις ἀνταποστέλλοι, τῇ πρεσβείᾳ ῥᾷστα ἦν κεκρατηκώς, τοῦ Δημοσθένους δ’ ἐπιστάντος, Μάτην, εἶπεν ἄν, ἐπρεσβεύσαμεν.

Demosthenis encomium. Pseudo-Lucian. ed. Karl Jacobitz. Leipzig. 1913.

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Δημοσθένους Ἐγκώμιον (Greek) (Lucian (Pseudo). Luciani Samosatensis Opera, Vol. 3. Jacobitz, Karl, editor. Leipzig: Teuber, 1913.)

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Demosthenes: an Encomium Perseus (The Works of Lucian of Samosata; complete, with exceptions specified in the preface, Vol. 4. Fowler, H. W. and Fowler, F.G., translators. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.) — 39 focus

[39] He never ceased to speak thus about Demosthenes. If any one told him the Athenian democracy was a formidable rival, ‘Demosthenes,’ he would say, ‘is my only rival; Athens without him is no better than Aenianes or Thessalians.? Whenever Philip sent embassies to the various states, if Athens had sent any one else to argue against his men, he always gained his point with ease; but when it was Demosthenes, he would tell us the embassy had come to naught: there was not much setting up of trophies over speeches of Demosthenes.

Pseudo-Lucian Demosthenis encomium 39

ed. Karl Jacobitz

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