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That you may understand how far more numerous are your accusers
than those of Timarchus, observe this. He was not known even to all his
neighbors; but there is not a man in Greece or in foreign parts who does not aver that you
ambassadors made gain of your embassy. If rumor is true, the rumor of the
multitude is against you; and for the veracity, and even the divinity, of rumor,
and for the wisdom of the poet who composed these verses, we have your own
assurance.
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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