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And they state that no one got his
ship in readiness before my opponents did, yet they bid you crown us jointly,
which is not what the decree orders. I am as far from granting this as I am from
having let out my trierarchy; I would not submit to the one, nor have I done the
other. They pretend to be pleading in the interests of justice, but they show
more zeal than any one of you would do without reward, as though their duty was
to earn their pay, not to give an opinion.
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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