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But if you want to find out how he really performs
his services, I will tell you; and please mark with what fairness I shall test
him, for I will compare him with myself. This man, Athenians, who is about fifty
years old or only a trifle less, has not performed more public services than I,
who am only two and thirty. Moreover I, as soon as I had reached man's estate,
undertook the trierarchy in the days when only two shared the duty, and when we
paid all the expenses from our own purses and provided the crews ourselves.
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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