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Where are the triremes
which Demosthenes, like Eubulus1 in his time, has supplied to the city? Where are the
dockyards built under his administration? When did he improve the cavalry either
by decree or law? Despite such opportunities as were offered after the battle of
Chaeronea, did he raise a single
force either for land or sea? What ornament for the goddess has he carried up to
the Acropolis? What building has Demosthenes put up, either in your exchange, or
in the city, or anywhere else in the country? Not a man could point to one
anywhere.
1 For the confidence inspired by Eubulus, son of Spintharus, who controlled Athenian finances from 354 to 350 B.C., and perhaps for a further period also, compare Aeschin. 3.25.
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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