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Since I have myself become exposed to the full hatred of the orators, I am
asking not only for divine assistance but for your help also. For they are
casting aspersions on my personal history, thinking to undermine your confidence
in my speech. I am of no consequence whether alive or dead; for what do the
Athenians care if Demades is lost to them, too? No soldier will shed tears over
my death—（How could he, when war brings him advancement and
peace destroys his livelihood?）; but it will be lamented by the farmer,
the sailor, and everyone who has enjoyed the peaceful life with which I
fortified Attica, encircling its
boundaries, not with stone, but with the safety of the city.
Demades. Minor Attic Orators in two volumes, 2, with an English translation by J. O. Burtt, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1962.
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