Aeschines' Father
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
my own father · your father
in the texts
Against Ctesiphon
Aeschines' elderly father, cited as a witness for old democratic legal severity.
And in those days, so my father said, they gave no such hearing as is given now, but the jurors were far more severe toward the authors of illegal motions than was the accuser himself;
Yes, as I have heard my own father say, for he lived to be ninety-five years old, and had shared all the toils of the city, which he often described to me in his leisure hours—well, he said that in the early days of the re-established democracy, if any indictment for an illegal motion came into court, the word was as good as the deed.
On the Crown
Aeschines' father, associated here with a humble schoolroom occupation.
You helped your father in the drudgery of a grammar-school, grinding the ink, sponging the benches, and sweeping the school-room, holding the position of a menial, not of a free-born boy.