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On the Crown
also: For Ctesiphon, De Corona, ὑπὲρ Κτησιφῶντος
Demosthenes' speech On the Crown (For Ctesiphon, 330 BC), the acknowledged masterpiece of Greek oratory; Pliny names his own Attia Viriola speech a counterpart to it.
Pliny the Younger Entiretext
also: For Ctesiphon, De Corona, ὑπὲρ Κτησιφῶντος
Demosthenes' speech On the Crown (For Ctesiphon, 330 BC), the acknowledged masterpiece of Greek oratory; Pliny names his own Attia Viriola speech a counterpart to it.