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Antipater and Parmenio, though they were
in the service of a hard taskmaster, and though they were not likely to fall in
with you again, nevertheless claimed exemption from serving as the agents of
your beguilement; and yet citizens of Athens, the appointed envoys of the freest of all cities, men
who must needs encounter you and look you in the face, who must live with you
all the rest of their life, who would have to render you a strict account of
their actions, accepted a commission to beguile you! Could any men be more
wicked or more lost to all sense of shame?
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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