# ὑπὲρ Κτησιφῶντος περὶ τοῦ στεφάνου 259

Demosthenes, ὑπὲρ Κτησιφῶντος περὶ τοῦ στεφάνου, Section 259. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/demosthenes/text-26/259

οἰκέτου τάξιν, οὐκ ἐλευθέρου παιδὸς ἔχων, ἀνὴρ δὲ γενόμενος τῇ μητρὶ τελούσῃ τὰς βίβλους ἀνεγίγνωσκες καὶ τἄλλα συνεσκευωροῦ, τὴν μὲν νύκτα νεβρίζων καὶ κρατηρίζων καὶ καθαίρων τοὺς τελουμένους καὶ ἀπομάττων τῷ πηλῷ καὶ τοῖς πιτύροις, καὶ ἀνιστὰς ἀπὸ τοῦ καθαρμοῦ κελεύων λέγειν ἔφυγον κακόν, εὗρον ἄμεινον, ἐπὶ τῷ μηδένα πώποτε τηλικοῦτʼ ὀλολύξαι σεμνυνόμενος (καὶ ἔγωγε νομίζω·

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Demosthenes, ὑπὲρ Κτησιφῶντος περὶ τοῦ στεφάνου, ed. Samuel Henry Butcher. 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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