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I submit that
it is not fair to combine the two pleas, that the gift was not illegal and that
the Council are not responsible for the lack of ships. For if it is right to
give them the reward even when they have not built the ships, what need is there
to say who is responsible for the omission? But if it is not right, why were the
Council any the more entitled to it, because he can point to this or that man as
responsible for the shortage?
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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