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They thought it becoming that the orator
who should speak over the bodies of the slain, and magnify their prowess, should
not be one who had visited the homes and shared the loving cup of their
adversaries; that the man who in Macedonia had taken part with their murderers in revels and
songs of exultation over the calamities of Greece, should not be chosen for high distinction at Athens; and that the chosen speaker should
not lament their fate with the feigning voice of an actor, but express the
mourning of his very soul. Such sympathy they discerned in themselves, and in
me; but not in your party; and that is why they appointed me, and did not
appoint you.
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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