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Again, when Leosthenes was talking very boldly and boastfully in the assembly, Phocion said:
‘Thy speeches, young man, are like cypress-trees, which are large and towering, but bear no fruit.’ And when Hypereides confronted him with the question,
‘When, then, O Phocion, wilt thou counsel the Athenians to go to war?’
‘Whenever,’ said Phocion,
‘I see the young men willing to hold their places in the ranks, the rich to make contributions, and the orators to keep their thievish hands away from the public moneys.’
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1919. 8.
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