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Two years ago I went out to Panactum,1 where we had been ordered to do garrison duty. The
sons of the defendant, Conon, encamped
near us, as I would to heaven they had not done; for our original enmity and our
quarrels began in fact just there. How these came about, you shall hear. These
men used always to spend the entire day after luncheon in drinking, and they
kept this up continually as long as we were in the garrison. We, on our part,
conducted ourselves while in the country just as we were wont to do here.
1 Panactum was an Athenian fort on the borders of Boeotia. An expedition to this point in 343 B.C . is mentioned by Demosthenes in Dem. 19.326. However, as we are told by Aristot. Ath. Pol. 42.4, that the ἔφηβοι （young men of military age）, in the second year of their training, patrolled the country and spent their spare time in the forts, it may be that no formal military expedition is meant. In that case the loose discipline is more understandable.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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