[41]
If he says that he spoke against it but
could persuade no one, surely it is ridiculous for him now to defend this
Council that rejected all his excellent advice; but if he says that he held his
tongue, is he not guilty of an injustice if he neglected his chance of
dissuading them from the offence they were contemplating, and yet ventures now
to say that having actually done so much evil they deserve to be crowned?
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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