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καὶ νὴ τοὺς θεοὺς Ὀλυμπίους, ὧν ἐγὼ πυνθάνομαι Δημοσθένην λέξειν, ἐφ᾽ ᾧ νυνὶ μέλλω λέγειν ἀγανακτῶ μάλιστα. ἀφομοιοῖ γὰρ μου τὴν φύσιν ταῖς Σειρῆσιν.1 καὶ γὰρ ὑπ᾽ ἐκείνων οὐ κηλεῖσθαί φησι τοὺς ἀκροωμένους, ἀλλ᾽ ἀπόλλυσθαι, διόπερ οὐδ᾽ εὐδοκιμεῖν τὴν τῶν Σειρήνων μουσικήν: καὶ δὴ καὶ τὴν τῶν ἐμῶν εὔροιαν2 λόγων καὶ τὴν φύσιν μου γεγενῆσθαι ἐπὶ βλάβῃ τῶν ἀκουόντων. καίτοι τὸν λόγον τοῦτον ὅλως μὲν ἔγωγε οὐδενὶ πρέπειν ἡγοῦμαι περὶ ἐμοῦ λέγειν: τῆς γὰρ αἰτίας αἰσχρὸν τὸν αἰτιώμενόν ἐστι τὸ ἔργον μὴ ἔχειν ἐπιδεῖξαι:

1 ταῖς Σειρῆσιν Baiter: the MSS. have ὡς ἔοικε before or after ταῖς Σειρῆσιν.

2 εὔροαν λόγων Blass: εὐπορίαν λόγων, λόγων εὐπορίαν, λόγων ἀπορίαν, λόγων ἐμπειρίαν MSS.

Aeschines. Aeschines with an English translation by Charles Darwin Adams, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1919.

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