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Aeschines, Letters, 3.172-3.173

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Here he married a woman who was rich, I grant you, and brought him a big dowry, but a Scythian by blood. This wife bore him two daughters, whom he sent hither with plenty of money. One he married to a man whom I will not name—for I do not care to incur the enmity of many persons,—the other, in contempt of the laws of the city, Demosthenes of Paeania took to wife. She it was who bore your busy-body and informer. From his grandfather, therefore, he would inherit enmity toward the people, for you condemned his ancestors to death and by his mother's blood he would be a Scythian, a Greek-tongued barbarian—so that his knavery, too, is no product of our soil.

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But in daily life what is he? From being a trierarch he suddenly came forward as a hired writer of speeches, when he had disreputably squandered his patrimony. But when he had lost his reputation even in this profession, for he disclosed his clients' arguments to their opponents, he vaulted on to the political platform. And though he made enormous profits out of politics, he laid up next to nothing. It is true that just now the Persian's gold has floated his extravagance, but even that will not suffice, for no wealth ever yet kept up with a debauched character. And to sum it all up, he supplies his wants, not from his private income, but from your perils.

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

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1. Euripides, Cyclops, 119 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

119. τίνος κλύοντες; ἢ δεδήμευται κράτος;

119. Obedient unto whom? or is the power in the people’s hands? Silenu

2. Euripides, Electra, 381-382, 385, 380 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

380. οὗτος γὰρ ἁνὴρ οὔτ' ἐν ̓Αργείοις μέγας

380. For this man, neither important in Argos , nor puffed up by the good reputation of his family, but one of the many, has been found to be the best. Do not be foolish, you who wander about full of empty notions, but judge those noble among men by their company

3. Euripides, Hippolytus, 987-989, 986 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

4. Euripides, Iphigenia Among The Taurians, 678 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

5. Isocrates, Orations, 3.39 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

6. Plato, Republic, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

473d. in our states or those whom we now call our kings and rulers take to the pursuit of philosophy seriously and adequately, and there is a conjunction of these two things, political power and philosophic intelligence, while the motley horde of the natures who at present pursue either apart from the other are compulsorily excluded, there can be no cessation of troubles, dear Glaucon, for our states, nor, I fancy, for the human race either. Nor, until this happens, will this constitution which we have been expounding in theory

7. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 3.62.3 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

3.62.3. And yet consider the forms of our respective governments when we so acted. Our city at that juncture had neither an oligarchical constitution in which all the nobles enjoyed equal rights nor a democracy, but that which is most opposed to law and good government and nearest a tyranny—the rule of a close cabal.

8. Aeschines, Letters, 1.81, 2.13, 2.78, 2.176, 3.160, 3.162, 3.168-3.171, 3.173-3.176, 3.182, 3.228 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

9. Lycurgus, Against Leocrates, 76, 140 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

10. Plutarch, Demosthenes, 14.2, 20.4, 25.2-25.3 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

11. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 59.5 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

59.5. 1. This was the kind of emperor into whose hands the Romans were then delivered. Hence the deeds of Tiberius, though they were felt to have been very harsh, were nevertheless as far superior to those of Gaius as the deeds of Augustus were to those of his successor.,2. For Tiberius always kept the power in his own hands and used others as agents for carrying out his wishes; whereas Gaius was ruled by the charioteers and gladiators, and was the slave of the actors and others connected with the stage. Indeed, he always kept Apelles, the most famous of the tragedians of that day, with him even in public.,3. Thus he by himself and they by themselves did without let or hindrance all that such persons would naturally dare to do when given power. Everything that pertained to their art he arranged and settled on the slightest pretext in the most lavish manner, and he compelled the praetors and the consuls to do the same, so that almost every day some performance of the kind was sure to be given.,4. At first he was but a spectator and listener at these and would take sides for or against various performers like one of the crowd; and one time, when he was vexed with those of opposing tastes, he did not go to the spectacle. But as time went on, he came to imitate, and to contend in many events,,5. driving chariots, fighting as a gladiator, giving exhibitions of pantomimic dancing, and acting in tragedy. So much for his regular behaviour. And once he sent an urgent summons at night to the leading men of the senate, as if for some important deliberation, and then danced before them.

12. Aeschines, Or., 2.78, 3.160, 3.162, 3.168-3.175

13. Demosthenes, Orations, 4.49, 6.23, 6.31, 9.54, 13.21, 18.130, 18.208, 18.261, 18.294, 19.129-19.130, 19.171, 19.285, 20.21, 21.58, 21.109, 21.139, 21.149, 21.198, 21.207, 29.57, 50.13, 52.9, 52.14

14. Epigraphy, Seg, 28.46

15. Lysias, Orations, 3

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
accusation	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 344
aeschines,against ctesiphon	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 217
aeschines,defines good rhetor	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 217
aeschines	Beneker et al. (2022), Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia, 252, 253, 260; Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 217; Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 344
alce	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 344
alexander the great	Beneker et al. (2022), Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia, 260
ambition	Beneker et al. (2022), Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia, 260
antiphon,anti-rhetoric	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 217
apollodorus (son of pasion)	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 349
aristotle,and rhetoric	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 217
athens,and identity	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 50
athens	Beneker et al. (2022), Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia, 253
bastardy	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 344
callippe	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 344
cithaeron	Beneker et al. (2022), Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia, 260
cleobule	Beneker et al. (2022), Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia, 253
community	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 344
critias (tragic poet and politician)	Csapo et al. (2022), Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, 207
deception,and sophistry	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 217
deception,association with rhetoric	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 217
democracy,athenian,and noble lies,and its oratory	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 217
demosthenes,representation of deceit	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 217
demosthenes,works,against leptines	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 50
demosthenes	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 50, 217; Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 344
deva,nirj	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 217
epithets,significance of divine	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 349
hermippus	Beneker et al. (2022), Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia, 253
hetaira	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 344
imaginary objections in oratory	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 349
isaeus	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 344
kosmetes	Henderson (2020), The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus, 66
logography (speech-writing)	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 217
multiple sanctifying features'	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 349
ober,j.	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 217
old comedy	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 349
oligarchs/oligarchy	Csapo et al. (2022), Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, 207
perikles	Henderson (2020), The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus, 66
philip ii	Beneker et al. (2022), Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia, 260
philip of macedon	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 238
plato,and rhetoric	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 217
plato (philosopher)	Csapo et al. (2022), Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, 207
polis	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 344
pornai	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 344
pylades (hero)	Csapo et al. (2022), Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, 207
rhetoric,in aristotle	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 217
rhetoric,in plato	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 217
rhetoric,of anti-rhetoric	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 217
rhetoric,theory of	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 217
solon	Henderson (2020), The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus, 66
sophistry,accusations of	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 217
sophronistes	Henderson (2020), The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus, 66
theopompus	Beneker et al. (2022), Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia, 252
theseus	Henderson (2020), The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus, 66
thirty tyrants	Csapo et al. (2022), Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, 207
virtues,eusebeia (piety)	Henderson (2020), The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus, 66
virtues,eutaxia (discipline, good order)	Henderson (2020), The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus, 66
virtues,peitharkhia (obedience)	Henderson (2020), The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus, 66
virtues,sophrosyne (self-mastery, self-control, moderation, modesty)	Henderson (2020), The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus, 66
women	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 344
xenophon	Henderson (2020), The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus, 66
zeus,oaths invoking,frequency	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 349
zeus,oaths invoking,in law-court speeches	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 238