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You remember the most recent occasion, at Peiraeus only the other
day, when you refused to appoint Aeschines to an embassy, how he bellowed at me:
“I will impeach you,—I will indict you,—aha!
aha!”1 And yet a threat of impeachment involves
endless speeches and litigation; but here are just two or three simple words
that a slave bought yesterday could deliver: “Men of Athens, here is a strange thing! This man
accuses me of offences in which he himself took part. He says that I have taken
bribes, when he took them, or shared them, himself.”
1 In this exclamation Demosthenes perhaps imitates the melodramatic style and intonation of his adversary. Aeschines is like our stage villain, crying, “Aha! A time will come.”
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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