Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 258

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But do you—you who are so proud and so contemptuous of others— compare your fortune with mine. In your childhood you were reared in abject poverty. You helped your father in the drudgery of a grammar-school, grinding the ink, sponging the benches, and sweeping the school-room, holding the position of a menial, not of a free-born boy.

Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.

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Commentary references to this page (5):
- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus, 761
- William Watson Goodwin, Commentary on Demosthenes: On the Crown, 129
- William Watson Goodwin, Commentary on Demosthenes: On the Crown, 19
- William Watson Goodwin, Commentary on Demosthenes: On the Crown, 265
- William Watson Goodwin, Commentary on Demosthenes: On the Crown, 313
Cross-references to this page (5):
- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, THE VERB: VOICES
- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, ADVERBIAL COMPLEX SENTENCES (2193-2487）
- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter III
- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter IV
- J.F. Dobson, The Greek Orators, Aeschines
Cross-references in notes to this page (1):
- J.F. Dobson, The Greek Orators, Demosthenes
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (13):
- LSJ, ἄν
- LSJ, βάθρον
- LSJ, διαπτύω
- LSJ, φυ^λάσσω
- LSJ, κορέω
- LSJ, μέλα^ν
- LSJ, παιδα^γωγ-εῖον
- LSJ, προσεδρ-εύω
- LSJ, σεμν-ύνω
- LSJ, σπογγ-ίζω
- LSJ, τάξις
- LSJ, τρίβω
- LSJ, τύχη

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