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In respect of the business of which I am
speaking— and at present I discuss nothing else—I am a
better citizen than you, in so far as I devoted myself to a course of action
that was unanimously approved, neither shirking nor even counting any personal
danger. You made no more acceptable suggestion, otherwise mine would not have
been adopted; and in carrying out mine you were not of the slightest use. You
are proved after the event to have behaved throughout like a worthless and most
unpatriotic citizen; and now, by a strange coincidence, those thorough-going
enemies of Athens, Aristratus at
Naxos and Aristolaus at Thasos, are bringing the friends of Athens to trial, while at Athens itself Aeschines is accusing
Demosthenes.
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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