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And yet, men of Athens, how do you account for the fact that the Panathenaic
festival and the Dionysia are always held at the right date, whether experts or
laymen are chosen by lot to manage them, that larger sums are lavished upon them
than upon any one of your expeditions, that they are celebrated with bigger
crowds and greater splendor than anything else of the kind in the world, whereas
your expeditions invariably arrive too late, whether at Methone or at Pagasae or at Potidaea?
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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