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You must not be cowed,
Athenians, or by losing your self-control give up the city's just defence, which
touches all alike, in deference to Demosthenes' entreaties. For none of you
compelled this man to take the money, to which he had no right, against your own
interests, when he has acquired, with your assistance, much more than enough
besides, nor to defend himself now when the crimes have been acknowledged and he
has proposed the death penalty for himself. But the avarice and wickedness,
fostered in him by his whole mode of life, have brought this on his head.
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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