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Then what vote,
what judgement, men of Athens, do
you think that our forefathers would give, if they could recover consciousness,
at the trial of the men who devised the destruction of the Phocians? I conceive
that they would account even those who should stone them to death with their own
hands to be free of all bloodguiltiness. For is it not an ignominy—or
use a stronger word if such there be—that, by the fault of these men,
the people who saved us at that crisis, and gave for us the verdict of
deliverance, have received evil in requital of good, and have been abandoned to
the endurance of afflictions such as no people of the Greeks has ever known? And
who is the author of those wrongs? Who is the contriver of that deception? Who
but Aeschines?
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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