"ἀλλ᾽ οὐκ ἔστι τούτῳ λοιπὸν οὐκ οἰκία, οὐ συνοικία, οὐ συνοικία, οὐ χωρίον, οὐκ οἰκέται, οὐ δάνεισμα, οὐκ ἄλλ᾽ οὐδὲν ἀφ᾽ ὧν ἄνθρωποι μὴ κακοῦργοι ζῶσιν. ἀλλὰ τούτῳ ἀντὶ τῶν πατρῴων περίεστι βδελυρία, συκοφαντία, θράσος, τρυφή, δειλία, ἀναίδεια, τὸ μὴ ἐπίστασθαι ἐρυθριᾶν ἐπὶ τοῖς αἰσχροῖς: ἐξ ὧν ἂν ὁ κάκιστος καὶ ἀλυσιτελέστατος πολίτης γένοιτο."
— Tryphé

January 1, 1970

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Timarchus ... has nothing left, not a house, not an apartment, not a piece of ground, no slaves, no money at interest, nor anything else from which honest men get a living. On the contrary, in place of his patrimony, the resources he has left are lewdness, calumny, impudence, wantonness, cowardice, effrontery, a face that knows not the blush of shame—all that would produce the lowest and most unprofitable citizen. — Aeschines, describing Timarchus' squandering of his inheritance, as translated b