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What is the reason,
you abominable wretch, that though you have taken part in public life for more
than thirty years, and though during that time many commanders have defrauded
the commonwealth, and many politicians as well, who have been tried in this
court, and though some of them have suffered death for their crimes, and others
have slipped away into exile, you never once appeared as prosecutor of any of
them or expressed any indignation at the wrongs of the city, bold and clever
speaker though you are, but made your first exhibition of anxiety for our
welfare on an occasion that called for harsh treatment of a great many people?
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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