[95]
I wish to show you that the attack Aeschines made on the
Euboeans and the Byzantines by raking up old stories of their disobliging
conduct towards you, was mere spiteful calumny,—not only because, as I
think you all must know, those stories are false, but because, even if they were
entirely true, the merits of my policy are not affected,—by relating,
with due brevity, two or three of the noble actions of your own commonwealth;
for the public conduct of a state, like the private conduct of a man, should
always be guided by its most honor able traditions.
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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