[6]
More than this, I secured the very best
rowers, giving by far the highest wages. If my opponents had had rowers inferior
to mine, it would have been nothing disgraceful, but in fact they have hired
rowers of no sort whatever, though they lay claim to larger numbers. And yet,
how can it be fair, when they manned their ship later than I did mine, for them
now to receive the crown as having been the first to get ready?
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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.