[4]
I must first refresh
your memory with a little history. You remember, men of Athens, when news came three or four years
ago that Philip was in Thrace besieging
the fortress of Heraeum. Well, it was the month of Maemacterion, and there was a
long and excited debate in the Assembly, and you finally decided to launch a
fleet of forty vessels manned by citizens under the age of forty-five, and to
raise forty talents by a special tax.
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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