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§§ 52—4. Unable to substantiate any real charge against me, he will descend to general platitudes against money-lenders; as if that were not in itself a proof that he has nothing better to say. ταχέως βαδίζει κ.τ.λ. Or. 45 § 77 τῆς μὲν ὄψεως τῇ φύσει καὶ τῷ ταχέως βαδίζειν καὶ λαλεῖν μέγα, οὐ τῶν εὐτυχῶς πεφυκότων ἐμαυτὸν κρίνω: ἐφ᾽ οἷς γὰρ οὐδὲν ὠφελούμενος λυπῶ τινας, ἔλαττον ἔχω πολλαχοῦ. Cf. infr. § 55.— Aristotle, in one of the touches that remind us of the Characters of his pupil Theophrastus, ascribes to the μεγαλόψυχος (Eth. IV ix=iii) κίνησις βραδεῖα καὶ φωνὴ βαρεῖα καὶ λέξις στάσιμος. S.] βακτηρίαν φορεῖ Theophrast. Char. 21 (μικροφιλοτιμία), δεινὸς κτήσασθαι — βακτηρίας τῶν σκολιῶν ἐκ Λακεδαίμονος. From many passages in Aristophanes (e.g. Vesp. 33, Eccl. 74), as well as from the chorus in the Agamemnon who are said τριποδας ὁδοὺς στείχειν (80), it is evident that sticks were commonly carried by the more aged at least. [Cf. Lysias 24 § 21, and Eur. H. F. 254; and see Becker's Charicles, I 159 = p. 87 E. T., and K. F. Hermann's Privatalt. p. 184 Blumner. S.]
Select Private Orations of Demosthenes, Part I. F. A. Paley, M.A., LL.D., and J. E. Sandys, Litt. D. 1898. Cambridge University Press.
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