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Well, when he tries to insult other people by calling them speech-makers and
charlatans, he shall be shown to be open to the same reproach. For those iambics
come from the Phoenix of Euripides. That play was never acted by Theodorus or
Aristodemus, for whom Aeschines commonly took the inferior parts; Molon however
produced it, and perhaps some other players of the old school. But Sophocles'
Antigone was frequently acted by Theodorus, and also by Aristodemus; and in that
play there are some iambic lines, admirably and most instructively composed.
That passage Aeschines omitted to quote, though he has often spoken the lines,
and knows them by heart;
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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