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Let us now turn to
his remarks about Solon. By way of censure and reproach of the impetuous style
of Timarchus, he alleged that a statue of Solon, with his robe drawn round him
and his hand enfolded, had been set up to exemplify the self-restraint of the
popular orators of that generation. People who live at Salamis, however, inform us that this statue
was erected less than fifty years ago. Now from the age of Solon to the present
day about two hundred and forty years have elapsed, so that the sculptor who
designed that disposition of drapery had not lived in Solon's
time,—nor even his grand-father.
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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