[161]
A beautiful
letter, is it not, gentlemen? One for which you could not have been too
grateful,—if only it had been true! But in fact he wrote it to
deceive, when he had no expectation of an armistice; but when he had got his
armistice,—read what he did then.“
Letter
”So, after the gentleman who undertook to
recover our lost fortresses had passed the straits, the governor of Crithote
informs us that our remaining possessions are in greater danger than
ever.—Show me another letter, and then read a bit of it.“
Letter
”Read a passage from another.“
Letter
”
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.