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Yes, it may
be said, this is the sort of man he was in his public conduct, but there are
other things which he has managed with credit. On the contrary, in every respect
his behavior towards his fellow-citizens has been such that the story you have
heard is the least of the reasons you have for hating him. What do you wish me
to mention? How he “repaired” the processional ornaments?
How he broke up the crowns? His success as a manufacturer of saucers? Why, for
those performances alone, though he had committed no other fraud on the city, it
seems to me he deserves not one but three sentences of death; for he is guilty
of sacrilege, of impiety, of embezzlement, of every monstrous crime.
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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