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Also it is so much easier to curry favour privately with
certain persons than to stand up in defence of your rights that, while
Timocrates has their fee in his pocket, and never introduced his law until he
got it, I,so far from getting any reward from you, am risking a thousand
drachmas in your defence.
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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