# Κατά Κτησιφώντος 21

Aeschines, Κατά Κτησιφώντος, Section 21. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/aeschines/text-3/21

καὶ οὕτως ἰσχυρῶς ἀπιστεῖ τοῖς ὑπευθύνοις, ὥστʼ εὐθὺς ἀρχόμενος τῶν νόμων, ἀρχὴν ὑπεύθυνον, φησί, μὴ ἀποδημεῖν· ὦ Ἡράκλεις, ὑπολάβοι ἄν τις, ὅτι ἦρξα, μὴ ἀποδημήσω; ἵνα γε μὴ προλαβὼν χρήματα τῆς πόλεως ἢ πράξεις δρασμῷ χρήσῃ. πάλιν ὑπεύθυνον οὐκ ἐᾷ τὴν οὐσίαν καθιεροῦν, οὐδὲ ἀνάθημα ἀναθεῖναι, οὐδʼ ἐκποίητον γενέσθαι, οὐδὲ διαθέσθαι τὰ ἑαυτοῦ, οὐδʼ ἄλλα πολλά· ἑνὶ δὲ λόγῳ ἐνεχυράζει τὰς οὐσίας ὁ νομοθέτης τὰς τῶν ὑπενθύνων, ἕως ἂν λόγον ἀποδῶσι τῇ πόλει.

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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/.