[258]
Again, thanks to his continual evasions, he has at
last been brought to trial at the very moment when, for the sake of the future
if for no other reason, you cannot possibly, or consistently with your own
security, allow a man so steeped in corruption to go scot-free; for, while it is
always your duty, men of Athens, to
abhor and to chastise traitors and bribe-mongers, a conviction at this crisis
will be peculiarly seasonable and profitable to all mankind.
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.
The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.