DemosthenesMacmillan & Company, 1882 - 172 pages |
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Page 116 - Aeschines, who never opened your lips, had been ever so loud or so shrill in prophecy or in protest, not even then ought Athens to have forsaken this course, if Athens had any regard for her glory, or for her past, or for the ages to come.