[263]
However, passing by things for which your
poverty may be blamed, I will address myself to actual charges against your way
of living. When in course of time it occurred to you to enter public life, you
chose such a line of political action that, so long as the city prospered, you
lived the life of a hare, in fear and trembling and constant expectation of a
sound thrashing for the crimes that burdened your conscience: although, when
every one else is in distress, your confidence is manifest to all men.1
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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