[23]
Now, you have a habit of asking a speaker on every
occasion, “What then must be done?”; but I prefer to ask
you, “What then must be said?” Because, if you are not going
to pay your contributions, nor serve in person, nor keep your hands off the
public funds, nor grant Diopithes his allowances, nor sanction the sums that he
raises for himself, nor consent to perform your own tasks, I have nothing to
say. You who have gone so far in granting license to those whose object is
fault-finding and calumny, that even about what they say he is going to do, even
on that ground they accuse him in advance and you listen to them—what
can anyone say?
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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