# Κατά Κτησιφώντος 253

Aeschines, Κατά Κτησιφώντος, Section 253. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/aeschines/text-3/253

ἀντιθῶμεν δὴ τὸ νυνὶ γιγνόμενον. ἀνὴρ ῥήτωρ, ὁ πάντων τῶν κακῶν αἴτιος, ἔλιπε μὲν τὴν ἀπὸ στρατοπέδου τάξιν, ἀπέδρα δʼ ἐκ τῆς πόλεως· οὗτος στεφανοῦσθαι ἀξιοῖ καὶ κηρύττεσθαι οἴεται δεῖν. οὐκ ἀποπέμψεσθε τὸν ἄνθρωπον ὡς κοινὴν τῶν Ἑλλήνων συμφοράν; ἢ συλλαβόντες ὡς λῃστὴν τῶν πραγμάτων, ἐπʼ ὀνομάτων διὰ τῆς πολιτείας πλέοντα, τιμωρήσεσθε;

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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.
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