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Can you say the same?
No, indeed! Why, immediately after the battle you went on embassy to visit
Philip, the author of all the recent calamities of your country, although
hitherto you had notoriously declined that employment. And who is the deceiver
of his country? Surely the man who does not say what he thinks. For whom does
the marshal read the commination? For him. What graver crime can be charged to
an orator than that his thoughts and his words do not tally? In that crime you
were detected;
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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