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From that day onwards he has
been talking, railing, and bellowing. Is there an election on? Meidias of
Anagyrus is a candidate. He is the accredited agent of Plutarchus; he knows all
the secrets; the city cannot hold him. His object in all this is obvious;he
wants to proclaim that “I am not a pin the worse for the vote of the
people: I have no fears or misgivings about the pending action.”
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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