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Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, section 184 (search)
That this is true, you shall learn from the verses themselves; for on the first of the Hermae stands written:“Brave men and daring were they who once by the city of Eion,Far off by Strymon's flood, fought with the sons of the Medes.Fiery famine they made their ally, and Ares on-rushing;So they found helpless a foe stranger till then to defeat.”unknown>and on the second:“This, the reward of their labour, has Athens bestowed on her leaders;Token of duty well done, honor to valor supreme.Whoso in years yet to be shall read these Ls in the marble,Gladly will toil in his turn, giving his life for the state.
Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, section 185 (search)
And on the third of the Hermae stands written:“Once from this city Menestheus, summoned to join the Atreidae,Led forth an army to Troy, plain beloved of the gods.Homer has sung of his fame, and has said that of all the mailed chieftainsNone could so shrewdly as he marshal the ranks for the fight.Fittingly then shall the people of Athens be honored, and calledMarshals and leaders of war, heroes in combat of arms.”unknownIs the name of the generals anywhere here? Nowhere; only the name of the peo
Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, section 223 (search)
And by your recriminations you so blocked the punishment which was your due that the danger came, not upon you, the wrong-doer, but upon those who attempted to proceed against you; for in your charges you everlastingly brought forward Alexander and Philip, and complained that certain persons were fettering the opportunities of the city—you who always ruin the opportunity of to-day, and guarantee that of to-morrow. And when at last you were on the point of being impeached by me, did you not contrive the arrest of Anaxinus of Oreus, who was making purchases for Olympias?Demosthenes asserts (Dem. 19.137) that Anaxinus had come as a spy of the Macedonians, and that Aeschines was caught in a secret interview with him. The purchases for Olympias, Philip's wife, may well have been a pretext for his visit to Athens
Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, section 224 (search)
And you twice put to the torture with your own hand and moved to punish with death the same man in whose house you had been entertained at Oreus. The man with whom at the same table you had eaten and drunken and poured libations, the man with whom you had clasped hands in token of friendship and hospitality, that man you put to death! When I convicted you of this in the presence of all Athens, and charged you with being the murderer of your host, you did not deny the impious crime, but gave an answer that called forth a cry of protest from the citizens and all the foreigners who were standing about the assembly. For you said that you held the city's salt as of more importance than the table of your foreign host.
Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, section 239 (search)
But this same man, overtaken by the dangers which are now upon him,See on Aeschin. 3.132. sent, not at the request of the Athenians, but of his own accord, three hundred talents to the people, which they were wise enough to refuse. Now what brought the gold was the crisis, and his fear, and his need of allies. And this same thing it was that brought about the alliance with Thebes. But you, Demosthenes, tire us out with your everlasting talk of Thebes and of that most ill-starred alliance, while you are silent as to the seventy talents of the king's gold which you have seized and embezzled.It appears that when Athens refused the 300 talents which had been brought from the king of Persia to help in organizing a revolt against Alexander, the Persian envoys put at least a part of the gold into Demosthenes' hands, in the expectation that he would use it in unofficial efforts against Macedon.
Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, section 252 (search)
To prove that this is not mere talk, consider my statement in the light of the following facts: There came—it pains me to call it to mind repeatedly—there came a certain disaster to the city. At that time a certain private citizen who merely undertook to sail to Samos was on the same day punished with death by the Senate of the Areopagus, as a traitor to his country. Another private citizen, who sailed away to Rhodes, was only the other day prosecuted, because he was a coward in the face of danger. The vote of the jury was a tie, and if a single vote had been changed, he would have been cast outside our borders.This was Leocrates, who had ventured to return to Athens after eight years' absence. Lycurgus' speech for the prosecution has come down to