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Why, the ambassadors themselves, whom your resolution
flatly contradicted, when you read them your answer and offered them
hospitality, did not venture to come forward and say, “You
misrepresent us, men of Athens; you
say we have said something that we never did say.” No; they held their
tongues and took their leave. But I want, men of Athens—for Pytho, who was one of the ambassadors, made an
excellent impression on you by his address—I want to recall to you the
exact words he used, for I am sure you must remember them.
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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