[8]
Then again, you must
consider this point, that in accordance with the existing laws of long
standing—laws of which Leptines himself cannot deny the
soundness—there is an interval of a year between each public service,
so that half the time a citizen is immune. And then, when all citizens, even
those who have not benefited you in the least, enjoy a half share in that
privilege, are we to take away from your real benefactors the addition that we
made to it? Surely not; for that would be dishonorable and, in your case,
especially unbecoming.
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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