[41]
That this is so, you
surely see for yourselves with regard to the present, and you need no evidence
of mine, but that it was the opposite in the days of old I will prove, not in my
own words, but by the written record of your ancestors, which they engraved on a
bronze pillar and set up in the Acropolis. [It was not for their own
use, for without these documents their instinct was right; but it was that you
might have these examples to remind you that such cases ought to be regarded
seriously.]
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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