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Some one came up to me just now in front of the court,
and told me a very odd thing. Aeschines, he said, had prepared himself to
denounce the general Chares,1 hoping to cajole you by his eloquent
treatment of that topic. I will not lay too much stress on the observation that,
whenever Chares has been brought to trial, he has been found to have acted
faithfully and loyally, so far as in him lay, in your interests, though he has
often failed of success by the fault of the people who do mischief for money. I
will go so far as to grant for argument's sake that every word Aeschines will
utter against him is true. But even on that assumption it is absolutely
ridiculous that a man in Chares' position should be denounced by a man like
Aeschines.
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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