The Olynthiac: And Other Public Orations of Demosthenes

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Harper & brothers, 1857
 

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Сторінка 98 - There while they acted and overacted, among other young scholars, I was a spectator; they thought themselves gallant men, and I thought them fools ; they made sport, and T laughed ; they mispronounced, and I misliked ; and to make up the atticism, they were out, and I hissed.
Сторінка 98 - You taught reading, I went to school : you performed initiations, I received them : you danced in the chorus, I furnished it : you were assembly clerk, I was a speaker : you acted third parts, I heard you : you broke down, and I hissed : you have worked as a statesman for the enemy, I for my country.
Сторінка 11 - But since he has wasted no fewer words in the discussion of other matters, in most of them calumniating me, I deem it both necessary and just, men of Athens, to begin by shortly adverting to these points, that none of you may be induced by extraneous arguments to shut your ears against my defense to the indictment.
Сторінка 16 - What was the effect of this, men of Athens ? I will explain. It was Philip's interest that the interval before the oaths should be as long as possible; yours, that it should be as short. Why ? Because you discontinued all your warlike preparations, not only from the day of swearing peace, but from the day that you conceived hopes of it; a thing which Philip was from the beginning studious to contrive...
Сторінка 79 - Had I attempted to say that I instructed you in sentiments worthy of your ancestors, there is not a man who would not justly rebuke me What I declare is that such principles are your own I show that before my time such was the spirit of the commonwealth; though certainly in the execution of the particular measures I claim a share also for myself.
Сторінка 93 - Mon innocence enfin commence à me peser. Je ne sais de tout temps quelle injuste puissance Laisse le crime en paix et poursuit l'innocence. De quelque part sur moi que je tourne les yeux, Je ne vois que malheurs qui condamnent les dieux.
Сторінка 50 - ... their own expense arm the young men with eight hundred shields: It hath been resolved by the council and people to crown Charidemus and Diotimus with a golden crown, and to proclaim it at the great Panathenaic festival, during the gymnastic contest, and at the Dionysian festival, at the exhibition of the new tragedies: the proclamation to be given in charge to the judges, the presidents, and the prize-masters.

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