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Since he stands on such an eminence of
pride, what do you think he will do, if he escapes now? I will tell you how you
may know it; you have only to observe the signs that followed the adverse
vote.] For who is there that, if an adverse vote had been recorded, and
that on a charge of profaning the feast, even if there had been no further suit
pending and no danger ahead,—who is there, I say, that would not have
made that a reason for effacing himself and behaving decently, at any rate until
the time of the trial, if not for ever after? Anyone else would have acted so.
But not Meidias.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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