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Have you denounced a decree, Demosthenes,
despite the many outrageous and illegal measures which Demades has proposed?
Have you prevented any political step among those which he has taken on his own
initiative against the interests of the state? Not a single one. Have you
impeached this man who has often acted contrary to the decrees of the people and
the laws? Never. You allowed him to have his statue set up in bronze in the
market and to share entertainment in the Prytaneum with the descendants of
Harmodius and Aristogiton.1
1 These honors were paid to Demades about 335 B.C. in recognition of his mission to Alexander after the destruction of Thebes. Cf. Life of Demades
Dinarchus. Minor Attic Orators in two volumes, 2, with an English translation by J. O. Burtt, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1962.
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