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The Council arrived, the presiding Councillors
formally reported the intelligence they had received, and the courier was
introduced. As soon as he had told his tale, the marshal put the question, Who
wishes to speak? No one came forward. The marshal repeated his question again
and again, but still no one rose to speak, although all the commanders were
there, and all the orators, and although the country with her civic voice was
calling for the man who should speak for her salvation; for we may justly regard
the voice, which the crier raises as the laws direct, as the civic voice of our
country.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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