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I saw, however, men of Athens, that he was a man of
evil disposition, that at the outset he had made charges to us against
Mnesicles, and then had quarrelled with Evergus, with whom he was on terms of
closest friendship; that at the first, when I returned from my voyage, he
pretended that he was glad to see me, but when the time came for him to do what
was right, he became surly with me; that he was a friend to all men until he got
some advantage and attained what he wanted, and thereafter became their foe and
was at variance with them;
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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