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They
held the taking of bribes to be too inimical and unprofitable to the state to be
tolerated in any transaction or in any person; but you, men of Athens, having before you a peace which at
once has pulled down the walls of your allies and is building up the houses of
your ambassadors, which robbed the city of her possessions and earned for them
wealth beyond the dreams of avarice, instead of putting them to death of your
own accord, wait for the appearance of a prosecutor. You are giving them a trial
of words with their evil deeds before your eyes.
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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