[33]
How then can you find an easy answer to
the question, Who was the rogue? Consult your own recollections, and mark who
denounced the transactions at the outset. For it is clear that, if the evil-doer
could hold his peace, escape immediate detection, and never afterwards allow
himself to be called to account, that was good enough for him; whereas the man
with a good conscience bethought himself that it would be very hard if by
keeping silence he should become a reputed accomplice in scandalous and wicked
actions. Well then, it was I who denounced these men from the outset, and none
of them denounced me.
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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