[46]
[You know it yourselves.
For why should you bear the whole blame, when all the other Greeks are just as
bad as you? That is why I assert that the present crisis calls for earnest zeal
and wise counsel. What counsel?]1 Do you want me to tell you, and will you promise not
to be angry?“
[He reads from an official record]
”2
1 The last two words seem pointless. Perhaps τίνος; is the attempt of a scribe to join the longer to the shorter version.
2 A frank description of the Athenian attitude, which should follow here, has dropped out, and the lemma, which is found in S and other good MSS., seems to be a poor attempt to fill the gap. It is difficult to imagine any official document that would be of use to the orator here.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
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