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I declare I was no colleague of yours; yours was an
embassy of flagrant wrong, mine was an embassy of loyal service. Your colleague
was Philocrates, and you and Phryno were his; for it was you and your friends
who did these things and who approved of them. Hark to his melodramatic whine:
“Where is the salt of friendship? where is the genial board? where is
the cup of communion?” as if doers of justice, not doers of iniquity,
were traitors to those symbols!
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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