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All other persons who have ever received
any favour from you have been honored for benefits conferred on you; Charidemus
is the one and only man who is honored for the impotence of his efforts to do
you harm. Why, to such a fellow exemption from the punishment he had justly
earned was a handsome gratuity! But that is not the view of the politicians; no,
make him a citizen, dub him benefactor,—here are crowns and
presents,—in return for those private doles of his! The rest of you
are gulled, and sit there wondering what is going on.
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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