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But when it was announced that the troops
at Tamynae were blockaded, and when
the Council carried a preliminary decree to dispatch the rest of the cavalry, to
which he belonged, then, alarmed at the prospect of this campaign, he came
forward with a voluntary gift at the next meeting of the Assembly, even before
the Committee could take their seats. What makes it clear, beyond all
possibility of doubt, that his motive was not public spirit but the desire to
shirk the campaign? His subsequent proceedings.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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