da Contro Timarco, 138
Origine: Citato in Michel Austin e Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Economie e società nella Grecia Antica, Boringheri, 1982, pp. 237-238.
Eschine Socratico Frasi e Citazioni
Eschine Socratico: Frasi in inglese
“I am a poor man and have nothing else to give, but I offer you myself”
Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of the Philosophers (Regnery, 1969), p. 75
Contesto: Aeschines said to him, "I am a poor man and have nothing else to give, but I offer you myself," and Socrates answered, "Nay, do you not see that you are offering me the greatest gift of all?"
Aeschines, On the Embassy, 32.