Demosthenes, On the Crown, section 267

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[267]

Let me now read to you the testimony of the public services I have rendered, and you shall read for comparison some of the blank-verse you used to make such a hash of:

“ From gates of gloom and dwellings of the dead,¹
”
Eur. Hec. 1

or,

“ Tidings of woe with heavy heart I bear,
”
Unknown

or,

“ Oh cruel, cruel fate!
”
Unknown

Such a fate may the gods first, and the jury afterwards, allot to you—for your citizenship is as worthless as your mummery. Read the depositions.“ Depositions ”

1 Eur. Hec. 1. The other quotations are unknown.

Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.

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