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When ambassadors were needed for the peace he said he
would not move a foot to leave the city; yet when it was reported that Alexander
was restoring the exiles and Nicanor
came to Olympia he offered himself to
the council as president of the sacred embassy. These are the parts he plays: on
the field of battle he is a stay-at-home, when others stay at home he is an
ambassador, among ambassadors he is a runaway.Now
read the1
and the decree relating to the inquiry over the money proposed by Demosthenes
for the Areopagus and affecting both himself and you. I want you by comparing
them together to realize that he is demented.“
Decree
”
1 That some words have dropped out of the text here is evident from the fact that two decrees are to be read and compared; moreover the executions mentioned in Din. 1.83 could have no connection with the decree relating to the money of Harpalus, since in this case Demosthenes himself was the first to be tried （Din. 1.106）.
Dinarchus. Minor Attic Orators in two volumes, 2, with an English translation by J. O. Burtt, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1962.
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