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It was not hard to see, men of Athens, the
other day when you thought there was no need to hear those who desired to speak in
opposition to the views of a certain speaker,1 that what is now coming to pass would occur—that those who were
then prevented from speaking would do so before a subsequent meeting of the Assembly.2 If, therefore, you shall do the same as before, and refuse to listen to
those who wish to support the decisions then approved, these men in turn will take the
matter to the next meeting and denounce these decisions.
1 It has been suggested that ὁ δεῖνα was a blank to be filled in as occasion required, the Exordia being composed in advance of use.
2 See Dem. Ex. 29 and note.
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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