I fought in the battle of Mantineia, not without honour to myself or credit to the city. I took part in the expeditions to Euboea,1 and at the battle of Tamynae2 as a member of the picked corps I so bore myself in danger that I received a wreath of honour then and there, and another at the hands of the people on my arrival home; for I brought the news of the Athenian victory, and Temenides, taxiarch3 of the tribe Pandionis, who was despatched with me from camp, told here how I had borne myself in the face of the danger that befell us.
Aeschines. Aeschines with an English translation by Charles Darwin Adams, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1919.
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