Aeschines, Against Timarchus, section 151

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Against Timarchus

The Speech on the Embassy

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Again, Euripides, a poet than whom none is wiser, considering chaste love to be one of the most beautiful things, says somewhere,¹ making love a thing to be prayed for:

““There is a love that makes men virtuous
And chaste, an envied gift. Such love I crave.”
”
Euripides

1 In the lost Sthenoboea, No. 672, Nauck.

Aeschines. Aeschines with an English translation by Charles Darwin Adams, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1919.

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