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And I pray to the gods
that those who out of contentiousness or spite or any other motive express any other
sentiments than those they believe to be advantageous may cease to do so; for to invoke a
curse when speaking in council is perhaps unseemly. Therefore, while I should myself lay
the blame for this bad state of affairs, men of Athens, upon no one except these men as a class, and although I think you
ought to exact an accounting of them when you have the leisure, yet for the present I
think you should consider only how the existing situation may be bettered.
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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