[49]
So, then, although he continued throughout all the past to
act as a member of the deme and to draw lots for offices together with me
without seeing any of these objections, yet, when the whole city was roused to
sharp indignation against those who had recklessly forced their way into the
demes, then, and not till then, he laid his plots. The earlier time would have
suited one who was convinced of the truth of his charges; but the present suits
an enemy and one who will stoop to malicious pettifoggery.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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