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Which of you is so hopeful,
Athenians, or so irrational, which of you is so unversed in past or present
history, as to expect that a man who reduced the city, through whatever fault or
fortune,—I am not concerned with that,—from such great
prosperity to such utter disgrace, will save us now by serving as a counsellor
and administrator? For besides the other difficulties and dangers which beset us
we have now corruption also, of men right in the city, and are one and all
striving to clear ourselves of a shameful charge, lest the people be thought to
hold in their own name the money which certain individuals are keeping for
themselves.
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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