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I
hesitate to begin treating this topic for fear words may fail me in the
description of what took place on that occasion, but nevertheless I shall not
pass it over; for it is a shame to refuse a report of what enthralls us as
spectators.Were I to describe all the
contests an unseemly length would perhaps accrue to this essay,1 but by recalling a
single example in which you especially distinguished yourself I shall
demonstrate the same truth and be found to make a more reasonable use of the
patience of my hearers.
1 Blass notes the expression of a similar fear in the Dem. 60.6 and in Isoc. 4.66, but surely it is a commonplace.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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