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but in the case of Chabrias your honors were for him
alone. Now, if at the time when he was receiving his reward, he had claimed that
as you had rewarded others for the sake of Iphicrates and Timotheus, so for his
sake you should reward some of those men who have actually received the
immunity, but to whom our opponents object so strongly that they want all alike
to be deprived of it, would you not have granted him that boon? I cannot doubt
it.
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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