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Again, men of Athens, consider those glorious and
much-admired inscriptions that he has obliterated for all time, and the strange
and blasphemous inscriptions that he has written in their stead. You all, I
suppose, used to see the words written under the circlets of the crowns:
“The Allies crowned the People for valor and righteousness,”
or “The Allies dedicated to the Goddess of Athens a prize of victory”; or,
from the several states of the Alliance, “Such-and-such a city crowned
the People by whom they were delivered,” or “The liberated
Euboeans,” for example, “crowned the People,” or
again “Conon from the
sea-fight with the Lacedaemonians,” “Chabrias from the
sea-fight off Naxos.”
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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