Orators -- Greece; Oratory, Ancient; Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek -- History and criticism
[226] See _de Pace_ (_passim_) delivered in the same year.
[227] Aesch., _Ctes._, §§ 222-225.
[228] _Dem._, ch. 24, περὶ Ῥόδον καὶ Ἰωνίαν σοφιστεύων κατεβίωσεν.
[229] _de Leg._, § 16, τοῖς γὰρ καιροῖς ἀνάγκη συμπεριφέρεσθαι πρὸς τὸ
κράτιστον καὶ τὸν ἄνδρα καὶ τὴν πόλιν.
[230] _Ibid._, § 157, ὁ τῆς μεγίστης σύμβουλος πόλεως.
[231] Hyper., _adv. Dem._, xxiv.
[232] _de Leg._, § 79.
[233] Dem., _de Falsa Leg._, §§ 145, 166-177; _de Cor._, § 41.
[234] _Timarchus_, § 174; _Ctes._, § 58.
[235] _Supra_, p. 148.
[236] _de Leg._, § 163.
[237] _Vide supra_, p. 166.
[238] ἐπῆλθέ μοι, Aesch., _Ctes._, § 118, where A. complacently relates
the whole incident.
[239] _de Cor._, §§ 129, 262, etc. Further, _de Falsa Leg._, § 246. A
tritagonist would ordinarily have to play the parts of kings and tyrants,
who must as a rule be majestic characters (cf. ὁ Κρέων Αὶσχίνης, _de
Falsa Leg._, § 247).
[240] _Timarch._, § 25.
[241] Dem., _de Falsa Leg._, § 252.
[242] Dem., _de Falsa Leg._, § 255, σεμνολογεἳ ... φωνασκήσας, etc.; _de
Cor._, § 133, σεμνολόγου; and numerous references to τριταγωνίστης.
[243] Aesch., _de Leg._, § 41, τὴν φύσιν μου μακαρίζων, etc. (of the
behaviour of Demosthenes during the first embassy).
[244] _Ctes._, §§ 228-229, ἐξ ὀνομάτων συγκείμενος, etc.
[245] _Supra_, pp. 167-170.
[246] Dem., _de Cor._, § 128.
[247] References to himself as πεπαιδευμένος, to his adversaries as
ἀπαίδευτοι, to their ἀπαιδευσία, τό ἀμαθές, etc., are very common in the
speeches against Timarchus and on the embassy.
[248] _Infra_, pp. 184, 187.
[249] _Timarch._, § 26. Aeschines adds a characteristically Greek
touch—‘his body was so horribly out of condition through his drunkenness
and other excesses that decent people covered their eyes.’ It was the
neglect of the body, rather than the exposure of the arms and legs, which
is exaggerated into ‘nakedness,’ that really shocked the spectators, in
addition to the ‘rough-and-tumble’ gestures of the orator.
[250] _Timarch._, §§ 37-38.
[251] _Timarch._, § 39. Ἄκυρος is used in a double sense; the early
actions of Timarchus are unratified in the sense of not proved; the
actions of the Thirty are not ratified by the succeeding governments. It
is a looseness of expression which does not spoil the general sense, and
there is, perhaps, an implied reference to the _Amnesty_, declared after
the expulsion of the Thirty. Similarly Aeschines declares an _amnesty_
for all the offences of Timarchus before a certain date.
[252] _Ibid._, § 55. In § 70 there is a further apology. Cf. also § 76.
[253] _Timarch._, § 53.
[254] Cf. _infra_, p. 191.
[255] _Timarch._, § 48.
[256] Dem., _de Falsa Leg._, §§ 2, 257.
[257] ξενία, expressing the mutual relations of host and guest, cannot be
adequately translated into English.
[258] _de Cor._, § 51.
[259] _Ibid._, § 284.
[260] Aesch., _de Leg._, §§ 25-33.
[261] _Ibid._, §§ 75-78.
[262] _Ibid._, § 79.
[263] _Ctes._, §§ 119-121.
[264] Aesch., _de Leg._, § 153.
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