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In view of
these facts you ought to distrust him, instead of losing your wits and giving
him your attention as a benefactor. There is no reason why you should owe him
gratitude for those deceitful professions of friendship which he offers under
compulsion, nor for the small sums which he lays out for the benefit of your
commanders and politicians,1
thereby contriving to get votes of thanks to himself submitted to you. You have
far better cause to resent those efforts to do you harm, which we know him to be
making in every place where he has won the power of acting as he pleases.
1 Lit. “orators,” but the word has sometimes the derogatory implication of “professional politicians.”
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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