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All
the rest about his court, he said, are robbers and toadies, men capable of
getting drunk and performing such dances as I hesitate to name to you here. This
report is obviously true, for the men who were unanimously expelled from
Athens, as being of far looser
morals than the average mountebank—I mean Callias the hangman and
fellows of that stamp, low comedians, men who compose ribald songs to raise a
laugh against their boon companions—these are the men he welcomes and
loves to have about him.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
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