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I shall make the beginning of my speech both short and reasonable, men of Athens, nor shall I deliver the whole of it. For I
believe that, while it is the way of a man who intends deception to cast about for a plan
whereby he may conceal from you, his hearers, by means of his words the disagreeable
aspects of the situation, on the other hand, the first duty of a man who has resolved to
deal candidly with you is to declare which side he has come forward to endorse, in order
that,
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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