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The older men would
know—and in all fairness you ought to inform the younger ones—of the
hearing granted Python1 of Byzantium before the Assembly when he arrived with
the envoys from the Greeks, expecting to show that the city was acting unjustly, but went
away with the tables turned against him after I, alone of those who spoke on that
occasion, had brought out the rights of the matter in your defence. I forbear to mention
all the embassies upon which I served in support of your interests, in which you were
never worsted even in a single instance;
1 Python, pupil of Isocrates and a presumptuous orator headed a deputation of all the Allies of Philip when they come to Athens in 343 B.C. to accuse the people of unjust conduct. See Dem. 7.20-23, Dem. 18.136, Plut. Dem. 9, and Lucian Encomium 32.
Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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