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Now it is likely that they will talk about their
trierarchies, and say that they have expended their property upon you. That
their statements will be false; that they have squandered much of their property
upon themselves, while the state has received but a small share; and that they
will deem it right to reap from you a gratitude that is not deserved nor
due—all this I shall pass over. I myself, men of the jury, deem it
right that somewhat of gratitude should be accorded by you to all who bear the
public burdens. But to whom should you accord most gratitude? To those who,
while in their actions doing what is of service to the state, do not bring to
pass what all would call a shame and a reproach.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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