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Even among your foes there is not a man who would despoil those heroes of
their meed of praise and gratitude; and does an Aeschines forbid you, their own
descendants, to commemorate their names—all for the sake of his
miserable bribes? There are indeed rewards in which the dead have no part or
lot; but the praise that waits on glorious achievements is the peculiar guerdon
of those who have gloriously died—for then jealousy is no longer their
adversary. Let the man who would rob the dead of their reward be stripped of his
own honors: that retribution you will levy on him for your forefathers' sake. By
those speeches of yours, you reprobate, you made havoc of our policy, traducing
and disparaging with your tongue the achievements of our forefathers.
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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