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Here is another point: if we were unable to
prove that any one man among the ambassadors received anything, or if that were
not as clear as daylight, we might have had recourse to torture1 or
the like. But when Philocrates not only confessed his gains repeatedly in the
Assembly, but paraded them before your eyes, dealing in wheat, building houses,
boasting that he would go abroad even if you did not appoint him, importing
timber, changing his gold openly at the bankers,—he assuredly cannot
deny that he has taken money, after that admission and that display.
1 torture: to get evidence from slaves.
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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