[194]
As those of you who were
present know, gentlemen, he had risen on that occasion to such a height of
bravado and impudence that, by abusing and threatening and turning his glance to
any quarter of the Assembly that was inclined to be obstreperous, he thought he
could browbeat the whole body of citizens. That, I think, must surely make his
tears today seem ridiculous. Execrable wretch, what have you to say?
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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