# Κατά Κτησιφώντος 168

Aeschines, Κατά Κτησιφώντος, Section 168. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/aeschines/text-3/168

ναί, ἀλλὰ δημοτικός ἐστιν. ἂν μὲν τοίνυν πρὸς τὴν εὐφημίαν αὐτοῦ τῶν λόγων ἀποβλέπητε, ἐξαπατηθήσεσθε, ὥσπερ καὶ πρότερον, ἐὰν δʼ εἰς τὴν φύσιν καὶ τὴν ἀλήθειαν, οὐκ ἐξαπατηθήσεσθε. ἐκείνως δὲ ἀπολάβετε παρʼ αὐτοῦ λόγον. ἐγὼ μὲν μεθʼ ὑμῶν λογιοῦμαι ἃ δεῖ ὑπάρξαι ἐν τῇ φύσει τῷ δημοτικῷ ἀνδρὶ καὶ σώφρονι, καὶ πάλιν ἀντιθήσω ποῖόν τινα εἰκός ἐστιν εἶναι τὸν ὀλιγαρχικὸν ἄνθρωπον καὶ φαῦλον· ὑμεῖς δʼ ἀντιθέντες ἑκάτερα τούτων θεωρήσατʼ αὐτόν, μὴ ὁποτέρου τοῦ λόγου, ἀλλʼ ὁποτέρου τοῦ βίου ἐστίν.

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Aeschines, Κατά Κτησιφώντος, ed. Charles Darwin Adams. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg0026.tlg003.local001/.