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Aeschines, Letters, 2.124

nan How he has deceived you—deceit is ever the mark of the charlatan—see from his own words. He says that I went down the Loedias river to Philip in a canoe by night, and that I wrote for Philip the letter which came to you. For Leosthenes, who had been exiled from Athens through the work of blackmailers, was not competent to write a clever letter—a man whom some do not hesitate to rank next to Callistratus of Aphidna as an able orator!

Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

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1. Aristophanes, Acharnians, 645-658, 644 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 644. ἥξουσιν ἰδεῖν ἐπιθυμοῦντες τὸν ποιητὴν τὸν ἄριστον
2. Aristophanes, The Rich Man, 571 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 571. ἀλλ' οὐ ψεύδει τούτων γ' οὐδέν, καίπερ σφόδρα βάσκανος οὖσα.
3. Isocrates, Orations, 12.140 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
4. Plato, Symposium, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 203d. rather is he hard and parched, shoeless and homeless; on the bare ground always he lies with no bedding, and takes his rest on doorsteps and waysides in the open air; true to his mother’s nature, he ever dwells with want. But he takes after his father in scheming for all that is beautiful and good; for he is brave, strenuous and high-strung, a famous hunter, always weaving some stratagem; desirous and competent of wisdom, throughout life ensuing the truth; a master of jugglery, witchcraft
5. Aeschines, Letters, 1.178, 2.153, 2.156, 3.97-3.99, 3.137 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
6. Dinarchus, Or., 1.92, 1.98, 1.110 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
7. Aeschines, Or., 1.178, 2.153, 3.97-3.99, 3.137, 3.207
8. Demosthenes, Orations, 3.21-3.24, 6.31, 8.34, 9.4, 16.3, 18.119, 18.132, 18.242, 18.257-18.259, 18.278, 18.282-18.284, 21.209, 23.145, 23.188, 25.80-25.83, 45.6

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
aeschines	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 213
antiphon,anti-rhetoric	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 213, 270
aristophanes,and anti-rhetoric	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 270
aristophanes,and parabasis	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 270
aristophanes,and topoi of orators	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 270
aristophanes,dicaeopolis in	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 270
aristophanes,on flattering rhetoric	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 270
aristophanes,works,acharnians	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 270
aristophanes	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 270
athens,comic vision of	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 270
bowie,a.	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 213
burkert,w.	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 213
deception,and comedy	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 270
deception,and sophistry	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 213
deception,association with rhetoric	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 213, 270
deinotes legein (cleverness at speaking)	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 213
democracy,athenian,and noble lies,and its oratory	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 213
demosthenes,attacks aeschines as sophist	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 213
demosthenes,representation of deceit	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 213
demosthenes,works,on the crown	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 213
demosthenes	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 213
goeteia (wizardry)	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 213
gorgias,and magic	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 213
isocrates	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 213
law,athenian.	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 109
logography (speech-writing)	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 213
negotiability,and anti-rhetorical terms	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 213
oratory	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 109
plato,and magic	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 213
rhetoric,of anti-rhetoric	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 213, 270
sophistry,accusations of	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 213
sophistry,vignettes of	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 213
speeches,revision of	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 109
spin and spin-doctors	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 213
topoi,in aristophanes	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 270
trial,athenian	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 109
water clock'	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 109