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The thing is impossible! No; I
made honest reports; I kept my hands clean of corruption for the sake of truth
and justice and of my future career, believing, as others have believed, that my
honesty would be rewarded by your favor, and that my public spirit must never be
bartered away for any emolument. I abhor these men because throughout the
embassy I found them vicious and ungodly, and because by their corruption I have
been robbed of the due reward of my patriotism, through your natural
dissatisfaction with the whole business. I now denounce them, and I have
attended this scrutiny, because I have a care for the future, and desire a
decision recorded in this case and by this court that my conduct has been
exactly opposed to theirs.
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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