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I think therefore that even
without my saying anything you recognize that you would most justly grant me the
crown, but I wish to show you that of all people in the world these men have the
least claim to it. How can I prove this most clearly? By what they have
themselves done. For they sought out the man who would take their trierarchy on
the lowest terms, and have let the service to him. Yet is it not unjust to
shrink from making the outlay, and still to demand a share in the honors
accruing from it, and while they lay the blame for not bringing their ship up to
the pier at that time on the man they hired, to bid you now reward them for good
service rendered?
Demosthenes. 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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