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I do
not know whether to call these young men admirers or unique for their sound
judgement. For, as I think, Fortune, scorning base men and wishing to arouse the
minds of the good, at the very outset made your nature beautiful, not for a life
of pleasure, to be beguiled thereto, but serviceable for a virtuous life, to
have happiness therein.1
1 This sentence exhibits rhythmical clausulae and Gorgianic parallelism of structure along with assonance of the vowel e. It is suggested that the Greek version be read aloud.
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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