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He
illustrated his remarks by representing to the jury the attitude of the statue;
but his mimicry did not include what, politically, would have been much more
profitable than an attitude,—a view of Solon's spirit and purpose, so
widely different from his own. When Salamis had revolted, and the Athenian people had forbidden
under penalty of death any proposal for its recovery, Solon, accepting the risk
of death, composed and recited an elegiac poem, and so retrieved that country
for Athens and removed a standing
dishonor.
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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