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Do you think
it was a trifling relief I gave to the poor, or a trifling sum that the rich
would have spent to escape their obligation? I pride myself not only on my
refusal of compromise and on my acquittal, but also on having enacted a
beneficial law and proved it such by experience. During the whole war, while the
squadrons were organized under my regulations, no trierarch made petition as
aggrieved, or appeared as a suppliant in the dockyard temple,1 or was imprisoned by the Admiralty,
and no ship was either abandoned at sea and lost to the state, or left in harbor
as unseaworthy.
1 dockyard temple: lit. temple of （Artemis） Munichia: the “Bluejackets' Church” at Peiraeus.
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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