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That decree Aeschines
neither cites nor reads; though he mentions to my discredit that I suggested in
Council that the Macedonian ambassadors should be introduced. What ought I to
have done? Objected to the introduction of men who had come expressly to confer
with you? Ordered the lessee not to give them reserved seats in the theatre? But
they could have sat in the threepenny seats, if I had not moved my resolution.
Or was it my business to take care of the public pence, and put up the state for
sale, like Aeschines and his friends? Surely not. Please take and read this
decree, which the prosecutor omitted, though he knows it well.
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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