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The man who
for your sake proposed the prohibition, under penalty of death, of carrying arms
to Philip is vilified and disgraced; the man who surrendered to Philip the
armaments of our allies is his accuser. Immorality—save the
mark!—was the theme of his speech, while at his side stood his two
brothers-in-law, the very sight of whom is enough to set you in an
uproar,—the disgusting Nicias, who went to Egypt as the hireling of Chabrias, and the
abominable Cyrebio,1 the unmasked harlequin of the pageants. But that was
nothing: under his eyes sat his brother Aphobetus. In truth, on that day all
that declaiming against immorality was like water flowing upstream.2
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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