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Now although men have quarrelled often enough, whether
on private or on public grounds, no one has ever been so lost to shame as to
venture on such conduct as this. Yet it is said that the famous Iphicrates once
had a serious quarrel with Diocles of the Pitthean deme, and, to make matters
worse, Iphicrates' brother Teisias happened to be a chorus-master in competition
with Diocles. Iphicrates was a wealthy man with many friends and had a high
opinion of himself, as a man would naturally have who had earned so many honors
and distinctions at your hands;
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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