Literary Record Details

Author: AESCHINES Orat.

Opus: In Timarchum
Reference: Aeschin.1.106

Period: Late Classical

Genre: prose
Subgenre: forensic
Object:
Gender: m
Context: office

Greek Text:  οὐκ ἔστιν ἥντινα οὐκ ἧρξεν ἀρχήν, οὐδεμίαν λαχὼν οὐδὲ χειροτονηθείς, ἀλλὰ πάσας παρὰ τοὺς νόμους πριάμενος.

English Text:  and yet there is not a public office which he has not held, not one of them by lot or by election, but every one by purchase, in defiance of the laws.