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And now comes the
strongest possible point—not a matter of assertion but of fact. I
wished to do the honest thing, and to give an account of myself twice, because I
had been appointed ambassador twice; but Aeschines approached the Court of
Scrutiny, taking with him a crowd of witnesses, and forbade them to summon me,
on the ground that I had already submitted to scrutiny, and was no longer
liable. What was the real meaning of this ludicrous proceeding? Having himself
rendered his account of the earlier embassy, with which nobody found fault, he
did not wish to come into court in respect of the embassy for which he is now
under examination; and that is the embassy that includes all his misdeeds.
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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