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But when some of them began to accept bribes,
when the populace was so stupid, or, let us say, so unlucky, as to give more
credence to those persons than to patriotic speakers, when Lasthenes had roofed
his house with timber sent as a present from Macedonia, and Euthycrates was keeping a large herd of cattle
for which he had paid nothing to anybody, when one man returned home with a
flock of sheep and another with a stud of horses, when the masses, whose
interests were endangered, instead of being angry and demanding the punishment
of the traitors, stared at them, envied them, honored them, and thought them
fine fellows,—
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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