[58]
As for his proposing that a
crown should be given to me, and the decoration proclaimed in the Theatre,
without adding the words, “provided he shall first have rendered his
accounts,” I conceive that that also is related to my public acts,
whether I am, or am not, worthy of the crown and of the proclamation before the
people; but I have, however, also to cite the statutes that authorize such a
proposal. In this way, men of Athens, I am resolved to offer an honest and straightforward
defence. I will proceed at once to the history of my own actions;
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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