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This affront did not touch the
generals—no, for they could have silenced his abuse by paying him a
trifling sum, but it was a gross insult to your action as electors and a proof
of his own depravity. The officials chosen by lot he worried with his demands,
extorting money from them and sparing them no insult. And now his latest exploit
is to stir up confusion and dissension among us all by publishing false letters,
for he was born to be the bane of all men, and his character is clearly shown by
his life.
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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