[4]
While I am well aware, Athenians, that to talk in this
assembly about oneself and one's own speeches is a very profitable practice, if
one has the necessary effrontery, I feel that it is so vulgar and so offensive
that, though I see the necessity, I shrink from it. I believe, however, that you
will form a better judgement of what I am going to propose, if I remind you of a
few things that I have said on former occasions.
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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