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But why this fellow-feeling? Why this concern for
Philocrates? Though all his acts on embassy had been consistent with honor and
sound policy, if Philocrates admitted, as he did admit, that he had taken
bribes, an incorruptible ambassador would have taken infinite pains to avoid and
disavow all association with him. Aeschines has not done so. Is not that a plain
argument, men of Athens? Does it not
proclaim aloud that he has taken bribes, and that from first to last he went
wrong for money's sake,—not through stupidity, or ignorance, or
blundering?
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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