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[But I should like to ask you, Meidias, which was
the greater scandal to the city—the men who crossed to Chalcis in due order, and with the
equipment proper to those who were to take the field against the enemy and to
join forces with our allies, or you, who, when lots were drawn for the
expedition, prayed that you might draw a blank, who never donned your cuirass,
who rode on a saddle with silver trappings, imported from Euboea, taking with you your shawls and
goblets and wine-jars, which were confiscated by the customs? We of the infantry
learned this by report, for we had not crossed at the same point as the cavalry.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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