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I
could say much more about the history of that time, but I suppose that what has
been said is more than enough. My antagonist is to blame, for he has so
bespattered me with the sour dregs of his own knavery and his own crimes, that I
was obliged to clear myself in the eyes of men too young to remember those
transactions. But it has perhaps been wearisome to you, who, before I said a
word, knew all about his venality.
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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