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Now when he does
so, just reflect, gentlemen of the jury, that this same man brought accusations
against the cavalry who had served with him, coming into the Assembly after they
had sailed for Olynthus; and now
once more, having stayed at home, he will address his denunciation of the people
to the men who were then away on service. Are you, then, prepared to admit that
you, whether at home or on service, are what Meidias proclaims you to be, or on
the contrary that he is, and always has been, an unhallowed ruffian? That is my
own opinion of him; [for how else are we to describe a creature whom
his own troopers, his brother-officers and his friends cannot stomach?
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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