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Again, I expect that Archias, of the deme of
Cholargas,—for he too was a Councillor last year-will plead on their
behalf in his character of respectable citizen. But I suggest that you should
meet his plea in some such way as this. Ask him whether the conduct with which
the Council are charged seems to him honorable or the reverse, and if he says
“honorable,” pay him no longer the attention due to a
respectable man; if he says “dishonorable,” ask him a second
question: why did he let it pass, if he claims to be a respectable man?
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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