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It
is this land, Athenians, the sacrifices traditional in it, and its ancestral
sepulchres to which right-thinking men must turn their thoughts when they give
their vote. And when Demosthenes wishes to cheat you and cunningly turns
pathetic, shedding tears, you must think of the city's person, and the glory
which it once possessed, and judge between two alternatives: which has become
the more deserving of pity: the city because of Demosthenes or Demosthenes
because of the city?
Dinarchus. Minor Attic Orators in two volumes, 2, with an English translation by J. O. Burtt, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1962.
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