[15]
After rejecting all
thought of pardon for Demades and Demosthenes, because they were proved to have
been taking bribes against you, and punishing them,—quite rightly,
though you knew that they had served you during their administration, certainly
in many respects if not in everything,—will you acquit this accursed
man who has not done you a service ever since he has been in politics but has
been the greatest possible menace? Would not everyone reproach you if you
accepted such a person as your adviser? For when you are addressed by a man
whose wickedness is both notorious and undeniable and a byword among all
Athenians, the bystanders will wonder whether you who listen to him have no
better advisers or whether you enjoy hearing such people.
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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