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ὃν μὲν οὖν τρόπον, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, χειροτονησάντων ὑμῶν ἐπὶ τοὺς ὅρκους αὐτὸν πάλιν τούς τε χρόνους κατέτριψε καὶ τὰ πράγματα πάντ᾽ ἐλυμήνατο τὰ τῆς πόλεως, καὶ ὅσαι περὶ τούτων ἐμοὶ πρὸς τοῦτον ἀπέχθειαι συνέβησαν βουλομένῳ κωλύειν, αὐτίκ᾽ ἀκούσεσθε. ἀλλ᾽ ἐπειδὴ πάλιν ἥκομεν ἐκ τῆς πρεσβείας ταύτης τῆς ἐπὶ τοὺς ὅρκους, ἧσπερ εἰσὶν αἱ νῦν εὔθυναι, οὔτε μικρὸν οὔτε μέγ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ὁτιοῦν εὑρημένοι τῶν ὅτε τὴν εἰρήνην ἐποιεῖσθε λεχθέντων καὶ προσδοκηθέντων, ἀλλὰ πάντ᾽ ἐξηπατημένοι, καὶ τούτων ἕτερ᾽ αὖθις αὖ πεπραχότων καὶ παρ᾽ αὐτὸ τὸ ψήφισμα πεπρεσβευκότων, προσῇμεν τῇ βουλῇ. καὶ ταυτὶ πολλοὶ συνίσασιν ἃ μέλλω λέγειν: τὸ γὰρ βουλευτήριον μεστὸν ἦν ἰδιωτῶν.

Demosthenes. Demosthenis.Orationes. ed. S. H. Butcher. Oxonii.e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1903.

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