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Now, if our interests were prospering, there would be no need to
deliberate; but since, as you all observe, they are in straits, I shall try, on that
assumption, to advise what I consider best. In the first place, you ought to recognize
that none of the policies you pursued while engaged in the war are to be used henceforth,
but quite their opposites.1
For if those policies have brought your fortunes low, it is very likely that their
opposites will improve them.2
1 Similar advice is given in Dem. 8.38. Cf. Dem. 2.23.
2 This advice is satirically tendered to Dionysus by Euripides in Aristoph. Frogs 1446-1450.
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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