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If you heard the slanderous language that he used against you,
as he paraded the market-place, you would hate him even more than you do, and
with justice. For he says there are many men in debt to the treasury, and all of
them in the same case as himself. I admit that these unfortunate men are
“many,” though there are but a couple of them; for every
state-debtor is one too many,1 and no
others ought to be in debt to the State. But I solemnly swear that their case is
not the same as the defendant's, nor anything like it, but quite the contrary.
Look at it in this way.
1 Lit. “They are more by everyone than is right.”
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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