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and it is you who may well be criticized, men of
Athens, because, when you deliberate about
something, you do not allow each to say what he thinks, but, if the one side captures you
first by their plea, you would hear no one from the other side. From this arises a
situation embarrassing for you, because the men whose advice, before going wrong, you
might have followed, you applaud later for denouncing your mistakes.
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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