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It would have been just and proper, men of Athens, for each member then to try to convince you of what he believed to
be best when you were considering these matters for the first time, in order that two
evils might not be resulting which are above all others damaging to the
city—that no decision of yours should be proving final and that you should be
convicting yourselves of madness by changing your minds. Since, however, certain men who
then kept silence are now finding fault, I wish to address a few words to them.
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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