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Now I pass over many other considerations, on the strength of which a different kind of a
man and with no other service to his credit would justly demand to obtain acquittal; I
mean the equipping of choruses and triremes and the contributing of money on all
occasions.1 In these duties I shall be found, not only to have been the
first to do my own part, but also to have urged the rest to do theirs. Reviewing these
services one by one, men of Athens, consider
how undeserved is the calamity that has now befallen me.
1 Prosperous citizens of Athens were required from time to time to contribute money for the equipment of triremes, dramatic choruses, and religious deputations to various shrines. These were theλῃτουργίαιin contrast to theὑπηρεσίαιmentioned in Dem. Ex. 52.
Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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