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No; our discredited
ambassador will keep all his tears for himself. Very likely he will bring his
children into court and put them in a conspicuous position. But do you,
gentlemen of the jury, as you look at those children of his, reflect how many
children of your own friends and allies are wanderers, roaming the world in
beggary, suffering hardships which they owe to this man; and that they deserve
your compassion infinitely more than the offspring of a malefactor and a
traitor, while, by adding to the treaty of peace the words and to their
posterity, he and his friends robbed your own children even of hope. When you
witness his tears, remember that you hold in your power a man who bade you send
accusers to Arcadia to testify against
the agents of Philip.
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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