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But I
am in a position to assert that the question does not concern the whole Council,
but only Androtion and some others, who are the cause of the mischief. For
should the Council receive no crown, who suffers disgrace, if he makes no speech
and moves no resolution himself, and perhaps even does not attend most of the
meetings? No one surely. The disgrace attaches to him who moves resolutions and
meddles with politics and tries to impose his wishes on the Council; because it
is through such men that the deliberations of the Council have proved
undeserving of the crown.
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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