[69]
No one will make that assertion. The
only remaining, and the necessary, policy was to resist with justice all his
unjust designs. That policy was adopted by you from the start in a spirit that
well became you, and forwarded by me in all my proposals, according to the
opportunities of my public life. I admit the charge. Tell me; what ought I to
have done? I put the question to you, Aeschines, dismissing for the moment
everything else—Amphipolis, Pydna,
Potidaea, Halonnesus. I have no
recollection of those places.
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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