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Did he then refrain from speech as well as
from moving resolutions, when there was any mischief to be done? Why, no one
else could get in a word! Apparently the city could stand, and he could do
without detection, almost anything; but there was one performance of his that
really gave the finishing touch to his earlier efforts. On that he has lavished
all his wealth of words, citing in full the decrees against the Amphissians of
Locri, in the hope of distorting
the truth. But he can never disguise it. No, Aeschines, you will never wash out
that stain; you cannot talk long enough for that!
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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