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Here is yet another proof that will
convince you that they all hate him, not because of the collection, but for his
acts of drunken insolence. Satyrus, the superintendent of the dock-yards,
collected for you not seven, but thirty-four talents from these very same men,
and used the money to equip the ships that were put in commission; and he can
tell you that he has made no enemies in consequence, and that none of those from
whom he levied the taxes is at open war with him. Naturally! He, I suppose,
simply discharged the duty assigned to him, but you in your wanton, headstrong
effrontery, being armed with authority, thought fit to terse with foul and lying
reproaches men who had spent large sums on the State, better men than yourself
and of better birth.
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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