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Well, about his father I will say nothing disrespectful; though I could tell
you a long story about thieving,—however, so far as I am concerned,
let his father be worthy of all the compliments that Timocrates may lavish upon
him. But suppose that the son of this virtuous father was himself a rascal and a
thief; suppose that he once paid a fine of three talents on conviction for
treason; suppose that, after he had sat in the Allied Congress,1
the court found him guilty of embezzlement, and ordered him to make tenfold
restitution; suppose that he played false when he went on embassy to Egypt; suppose that he swindled his own
brothers—does he not deserve imprisonment all the more if his father
was virtuous, and he is what he is? For my part, I fancy that, if Laches2 really was virtuous and patriotic, he
should himself have sent his degenerate son to jail for implicating him in such
infamous scandals. However, let us pass Melanopus by, and fix our gaze upon
Glaucetes.
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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