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Now there is another question, men of Athens, which is worth going into. Why is
it that when the Council have performed all their other duties satisfactorily,
and no one has any complaint to make, yet, if they have not built the ships,
they are not allowed to ask for the reward? You will find that this stringent
enactment is in the interests of the people. For I suppose no one would deny
that all that has happened to our city, in the past or in the present, whether
good or otherwise—I avoid an unpleasant term—has resulted in
the one case from the possession, and in the other from the want, of warships.
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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