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τοῦτον μὲν τὸν νόμον ἔθηκε περὶ τῶν μειρακίων τῶν προχείρως εἰς τὰ ἑαυτῶν σώματα ἐξαμαρτανόντων: οὓς δὲ ὀλίγῳ πρότερον ὑμῖν ἀνέγνω, περὶ τῶν παίδων: οὓς δὲ νυνὶ μέλλω λέγειν, περὶ τῶν ἄλλων Ἀθηναίων. ἀπαλλαγεὶς γὰρ τῶν νόμων τούτων ἐσκέψατο, τίνα χρὴ τρόπον συλλεγομένους ἡμᾶς εἰς τὰς ἐκκλησίας βουλεύεσθαι περὶ τῶν σπουδαιοτάτων πραγμάτων. καὶ πόθεν ἄρχεται; ‘νόμοι,’ φησί, ‘περὶ εὐκοσμίας.’ ἀπὸ σωφροσύνης πρῶτον ἤρξατο,1 ὡς, ὅπου πλείστη εὐκοσμία ἐστί, ταύτην ἄριστα τὴν πόλιν οἰκησομένην.

1 Sakorraphos considers the words ἀπὸ ... ἤρξατο an unquestionable interpolation.

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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