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Secondly, when you grumble at me, you are
doing an ill turn to your fellow-citizens. Why do you tell them today what they
ought to have done then? You were in Athens and at the Assembly: why did you not offer your
suggestions at the time—if indeed they could possibly be offered
during an imminent crisis, when we had to accept, not all that we wanted, but
all that the conditions allowed? There was a man lying in wait who was bidding
against us, and was ready to welcome any allies we drove away, and pay them into
the bargain.
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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