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Moreover it was
Aristophon who proposed to pay Gelarchus five talents for sums advanced to the
democrats in the Piraeus1; and he was right. Then, my friend, if you recommended the
repayment of unattested sums on the ground of service done to the people, you
must not advise the revocation of grants for services which the people
themselves attested by inscriptions in the temples, and which are indeed known
to all men. You must not exhibit yourself as at the same time proposing that
debts ought to be paid, and urging that a man should be deprived of what he has
won at the hands of the people.
1 See Dem. 20.11. Gelarchus is not otherwise known. There were, apparently, no witnesses to his gift.
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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