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If, Aeschines, you are determined at
all costs to investigate my fortune, compare it with your own; and, should you
find mine to be better than yours, stop your vilification. Begin your inquiry
then at the beginning. And I beg earnestly that no one will blame me for want of
generosity. No sensible man, in my judgement, ever turns poverty into a
reproach, or prides himself on having been nurtured in affluence. But I am
compelled by this troublesome man's scurrility and backbiting to deal with these
topics; and I will treat them with as much modesty as the state of the case
permits.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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