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1 However, I will make it quite clear to you
without more ado that he did not carry out these exactions for your benefit at
all. If he were asked whether, in his opinion, the greater injury is done to the
common wealth by tillers of the soil, who live frugally, but, because of the
cost of maintaining their children, or of household expenses, or of other public
burdens, are behindhand with their taxes, or by people who plunder and squander
the money of willing taxpayers and the revenue that comes from our allies, I am
sure that, for all his hardihood, he would never have the audacity to reply that
those who fail to contribute their own money are worse transgressors than those
who embezzle public money.
1 The rest of this speech is almost entirely repeated in that against Timocrates, Dem. 24.172-186.
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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