Aeschines

and that Aeschines pocketed his fee.

Is Aeschines Alexander’s hireling, or Alexander’s friend?

He told you that you need not be excited because Philip had passed Thermopylae;

Aeschines?

Who but Aeschines?

Well, the Council adopted this resolution.

but for all our misfortunes, Demosthenes.

Respect them therefore, and remember the oaths which you have sworn, and the laws;

This is why the lawgiver placed first in the jurors’ oath these words, I will vote according to the laws.

I have never, fellow citizens, brought indictment against any Athenian, nor vexed any man when he was rendering account of his office;

and knowing that he was liable to the accusations that you heard read a moment ago by the clerk of the court, I instituted this suit, challenging him to official scrutiny.

However, although the fact in this case is acknowledged, I remember that we are in court, and so I have drafted an affidavit for Misgolas, true and not indelicate in phrasing, as I flatter myself.

Now up to this point I am supported by the testimony of my colleagues in the embassy, whom he has reviled and slandered from beginning to end of his accusation.

Come forward, then, Demosthenes, to this platform while I have the floor, and mention the name of any city of Hellas you choose from which you say the ambassadors had at that time arrived.

remembering also the arts and devices of my accuser, and the cruelty of the man who, speaking to men who are under oath to give equal hearing to both parties, had the effrontery to urge you not to listen to the voice of the defendant.

Is it in Nephelococcygia that all the wealth of Theogenes and most of Aeschines' is?

Informer:

Informer:

Diogenes of Sinope, having been cast out of his fatherland, in nothing differing from the very meanest of men, came to Athens, and found there still many of the companions of Socrates—Plato, that is, and Aristippus and Aeschines and Antisthenes and Euclides the Megarian;

Only I would not counsel you to read these for the most part, but Hyperides rather and Aeschines.

Then Lycius, who commanded the squadron of Greek cavalry, and Aeschines, commander of the battalion of peltasts that was with Cheirisophus, upon seeing the enemy in full flight set off in pursuit, while the rest of the Greek troops shouted to them not to fall behind, but to follow the fugitives right up to the mountain.

Then the peltasts of the Arcadian division, who were commanded by Aeschines the Acarnanian, getting the idea that the enemy were in flight, set up a shout and began to run;

'Does he gladly visit that place where Demosthenes and Aeschines were wont to contend with each other?

11] Aeschines the Athenian, a most eloquent man, when as a young man he had acted tragedies, took up public affairs;

And so Aeschines inveighs against Demosthenes because he sacrificed victims on the seventh day after his daughter's death.

When the indictment was called, someone filed an affidavit for postponement, declaring that Demosthenes was ill—Demosthenes, who was going about and abusing Aeschines.

It is observed in one of the speeches of Aeschines, that Philip, though at war with the Amphipolitans, could not lawfully take possession of Amphipolis, as a conquest, it being a city, which belonged to the Athenians.

Now Eupolis left two daughters, one who is the present claimant and the wife of Pronapes, and another whom Aeschines of Lusia married and who is dead, but left a son Thrasybulus, who is now of full age.

then there is Lysanias the Sphettian, father of Aeschines, who is here;

Of native Athenians there was this Apollodorus, and Critobulus and his father, and Hermogenes and Epiganes and Aeschines and Antisthenes;

1 When all were offering Socrates many gifts, each according to his means, Aeschines, a poor disciple, said:

And this oligarchy came into being in the way hereafter described — it was voted by the people to choose thirty men to frame the ancient laws into a constitution under which to conduct the government.

When, however, the Thirty began to consider how they might become free to do just as they pleased with the state, their first act was to send Aeschines and Aristoteles to Lacedaemon and persuade Lysander to help them to secure the sending of a Lacedaemonian garrison, to remain until, as they said, they could put the scoundrels out of the way and establish their government;