[15]
Yet
what more ingenious and cunning device could these men have concocted to obtain
the expulsion of the other kings, and the subjection of the whole realm to the
monarch whom they preferred, than when they intimidated the commanders who would
otherwise have supported the two rivals, and put them on their guard against
that spiteful accusation which they might reasonably expect to encounter by the
operation of this decree; and when on the other hand they conferred upon the man
who was scheming to get the monarchy for one king, and was laying plans entirely
opposed to your interests, such ample licence to proceed without fear?
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.