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These, then, are
the acts of which I thought proper to take no account. Not long after this,
however, one evening, when I was taking a walk, as my custom was, in the agora
with Phanostratus of Cephisia,1 a man of my own age,2 Ctesias,
the son of the defendant, passed by me in a drunken state opposite the
Leocorion,3 near the house
of Pythodorus. At sight of us he uttered a yell, and, saying something to
himself, as a drunken man does, in an unintelligible fashion, passed on up,
toward Melitê.4 Gathered together there for a
drinking bout, as we afterwards learned, at the house of Pamphilus the fuller,
were the defendant Conon, a certain
Theotimus, Archeblades, Spintharus, son of Eubulus, Theogenes, son of
Andromenes, and a number of others. Ctesias made them all get up, and proceeded
to the agora.
1 Cephisia, a deme of the tribe Erectheïs.
2 This suggests that they were in the same military age-class, and may have been together in camp at Panactum.
3 This was a monument erected in honor of the three daughters of Leos, whom, in obedience to an oracle, their father had sacrificed for the safety of their country.
4 Melitê was a hilly district in the western part of Athens, its entrance from the agora being through the hollow between the extremity of the Areopagus and the Κολωνὸς Ἀγοραῖος.
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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