[13]
Very well; but in
these cases it is the state that is injured: what harm does it do me
individually? Observe in what serious ways I am harmed, and consider if there be
anything in what I say. Indeed the wrong done to me is far more grievous than
what you have heard. You all know, for instance, that he was intimate with
Menecles during his lifetime, and with his crowd, and that he now associates
with others no better than Menecles, and that he has cherished the same
ambitions, and desires to be thought a clever fellow1;
and, by Zeus, I dare say he is.
1 Possibly, “an eloquent speaker.”
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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