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Aeschines, Letters, 3.97-3.99


nanDemosthenes came forward with a most solemn air, praised Callias above measure, and pretended to know the secret business; but he said that he wished to report to you his own recent mission to the Peloponnesus and Acarnania . The sum of what he said was that all Peloponnesus could be counted on, and that he had brought all the Acarnanians into line against Philip; that the contributions of money were sufficient to provide for the manning of one hundred swift ships, and to employ ten thousand foot soldiers and a thousand cavalry;


nanand that in addition to these forces the citizen troops would be ready, from the Peloponnesus more than two thousand hoplites, and as many more from Acarnania that the leadership of them all was given to you, and that all this was going to be done, not after a long interval, but by the 16th of Anthesterion; for he himself had given notice in the cities, and invited all the delegates to come to Athens by the time of the full moon to take part in a congress. For this is Demosthenes' personal and peculiar way of doing things:


nanother deceivers, when they are lying, try to speak in vague and ambiguous terms, afraid of being convicted; but Demosthenes, when he is cheating you, first adds an oath to his lie, calling down destruction on himself; and secondly, predicting an event that he knows will never happen, he dares to tell the date of it; and he tells the names of men, when he has never so much as seen their faces, deceiving your ears and imitating men who tell the truth. And this is, indeed, another reason why he richly deserves your hatred, that he is not only a scoundrel himself, but destroys your faith even in the signs and symbols of honesty.


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. Isocrates, Orations, 12.140 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

3. Aeschines, Letters, 1.178, 2.124, 2.153, 3.91, 3.93, 3.98-3.99 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

4. Dinarchus, Or., 1.98, 1.110 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)

5. Aeschines, Or., 1.178, 2.153, 3.88, 3.91, 3.97-3.99, 3.101

6. Demosthenes, Orations, 3.21-3.24, 6.31, 8.34, 9.4, 16.3, 18.278, 18.282-18.284, 23.145, 23.188



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
aeschines,against ctesiphon Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 232
aeschines,on demosthenes mimetic lying Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 232
aeschines,on the embassy Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 232
aeschines Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 195; Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 232
alazoneia (charlatanry,being an impostor) Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 232
aletheia (truth),in aeschines Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 232
antipater Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 195
antiphon,anti-rhetoric Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 232, 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
athenian democratic ideology Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 195
athens,comic vision of Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 270
callias of chalcis Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 195
chaeronea vii Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 195
charidemos Liddel (2020), Decrees of Fourth-Century Athens (403/2-322/1 BC): Volume 2, Political and Cultural Perspectives, 98
deception,and comedy Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 270
deception,association with rhetoric Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 232, 270
deception,staged detections of Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 232
democracy,athenian,and noble lies,and its oratory Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 232
demosthenes,as mimetic liar Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 232
demosthenes,representation of deceit Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 232
demosthenes Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 232
demosthenes vii Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 195
euboea Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 195
goeteia (wizardry) Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 232
hyperides Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 195
lawcourt oratory' Liddel (2020), Decrees of Fourth-Century Athens (403/2-322/1 BC): Volume 2, Political and Cultural Perspectives, 98
mimesis (imitation,representation) Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 232
perdiccas Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 195
philip ii Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 195
rhetoric,of anti-rhetoric Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 232, 270
rhetoric (rhetorike) vi Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 195
second athenian confederacy Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 195
self-exposing lies Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 232
taurosthenes of chalcis Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 195
topoi,in aristophanes Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 270
treves,piero Amendola (2022), The Demades Papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045): A New Text with Commentary, 195