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Meidias, when he was of my present age,
had not yet begun to perform services; he has only put his hand to the task
since you made twelve hundred citizens joint contributors, from whom such men as
Meidias exact a talent and then contract for the equipment of the war-galley at
the same price. After this the State provides the crews and furnishes the
tackle; so that some of them succeed in really spending nothing at all and by
pretending to have performed one public service enjoy exemption from the rest.
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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