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Give me the resolution which the Council
adopted on my report, and the evidence of the member who moved it on that
occasion. These documents will satisfy you that I did not hold my peace then, to
run away from my actions now,—for I was laying my complaint, and
trying to forecast results, at the first opportunity; and also that the Council,
not being debarred from hearing the truth from me, did not give these men either
a vote of thanks, or an invitation to the public dinner in the Town Hall. We are
told that these compliments had never before been withheld from any ambassadors
since the foundation of Athens—not even from Timagoras,1 whom the
Assembly condemned to death. These men, however, had to go without them.
1 See Introduction, pp. 241-2.
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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