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He forgot the ship
that saves; forgot that embarked in her his own mother, performing her rites,
scouring her candidates, making her pittance from the substance of her
employers, here reared her hopeful brood to greatness. Here, too, his father,
who kept an infant-school, lived as best he could,—next door to Heros
the physician,1 as
I am told by elderly informants,—anyhow, he lived in this city. The
offspring of this pair earned a little money as junior clerks and messengers in
the public offices, until, by your favor, they became full-fledged clerks, with
free maintenance for two years in the Rotunda.2 Finally, from this same city Aeschines
received his commission as ambassador.
1 Heros the Physician: or the Hero Physician; see Dem. 18.129, and note.
2 The Prytaneum or Town Hall.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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