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You were at that time on the point of sending
your entire force to Euboea and
Olynthus,1 and Apollodorus, being one of
its members, brought forward in the senate a bill, and carried it as a
preliminary decree2 to the assembly, proposing that the people should decide
whether the funds remaining over from the state's expenditure should be used for
military purposes or for public spectacles. For the laws prescribed that, when
there was war, the funds remaining over from state expenditures should be
devoted to military purposes, and Apollodorus believed that the people ought to
have power to do what they pleased with their own; and he had sworn that, as
member of the senate, he would act for the best interests of the Athenian
people, as you all bore witness at that crisis.
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.
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