The sources of On the Embassy

1. Demosthenes 2 neutral · 1 refuted 3 citations · 6 passages

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   Aeschines cites this decree, moved by Demosthenes, simply as neutral documentary proof of a fact about Demosthenes' conduct, not to endorse or refute the decree itself.

   and so eager was Demosthenes for the business, that in order to make it possible for Aristodemus to be a member of our embassy without financial loss to himself, he moved that we elect envoys to go to the cities in which Aristodemus was under contract to act, and beg in his behalf the cancelling of his forfeitures.

2. Hesiod 2 authority 2 citations · 3 passages

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   Hesiod is cited as a poetic authority for the status of Common Report.

   For he says that when I was prosecuting Timarchus I said that his lewdness was a matter of common report, and that Hesiod, a good poet, says, But Common Report dies never, the voice that tongues of many men do utter.

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on the embassy 32 sources

Aleximachus' motion on Cersobleptes · Amphictyonic oaths · Athenian decree on Phocian posts · Bloodshed-trial oath custom at the Palladion · Callisthenes' treaty of truce with Perdiccas · Chares' letter to the Athenian people · Date of the senate decree · Decree and testimony on Aeschines' military service · Decree authorizing additional negotiation by ambassadors · Decreed prayers for military dispatches · Law on elected ambassadors declining before the senate · Philip's letter about the oath · Plea of the Boeotians and Phocians · Proxenus' letter · Public decrees praising Aeschines · Report and testimony of the heralds of the Mysteries · Reported speech of Epameinondas in the Theban assembly · Reported statement of Cleochares of Chalcis · Senate decree ordering the ambassadors to receive oaths · Testimony and challenge concerning Aeschines' nights with messmates · Testimony of Aleximachus and the presidents · Testimony of Aristophanes and supporting witnesses · Testimony of ambassadorial colleagues at Pella · Testimony of generals and allied representatives · The law committing the defendant to the jury · decree fixing the mandate of the embassy to Philip · decree of the Athenian allies (synod) on deliberating the peace · deposition of Aristodemus · letter of Philip to the Athenian Assembly · resolution of the Greek congress on Amphipolis · testimony of Aeschines' fellow ambassadors · testimony of Amyntor of Herchia