. The universal anthology ; a collection of the best literature, ancient, mediaeval and modern, with biographical and explanatory notes. rer, and the like, getting as your reward tartsand biscuits and rolls; for which any man might well blesshimself and his fortune ! When you were enrolled among your fellow-townsmen — bywhat means I stop not to inquire — when you were enrolledhowever, you immediately selected the most honorable of em-ployments, that of clerk and assistant to our petty this you were removed after a while, having done your-self all that you charge others with; a
. The universal anthology ; a collection of the best literature, ancient, mediaeval and modern, with biographical and explanatory notes. rer, and the like, getting as your reward tartsand biscuits and rolls; for which any man might well blesshimself and his fortune ! When you were enrolled among your fellow-townsmen — bywhat means I stop not to inquire — when you were enrolledhowever, you immediately selected the most honorable of em-ployments, that of clerk and assistant to our petty this you were removed after a while, having done your-self all that you charge others with; and then, sure enough,you disgraced not your antecedents by your subsequent life,but hiring yourself to those ranting players, as they werecalled, Simylus and Socrates, you acted third parts, collectingiigs and grapes and olives like a fruiterer from other mensfarms, and getting more from them than from the playing,in which the lives of your whole company were at stake; forthere was an implacable and incessant war between them andthe audience, from whom you received so many wounds, that Demosthenes From the statue in the Louvre. DEMOSTHENES. 176 no wonder you taunt as cowards, people inexperienced in suchencounters. But passing over what may be imputed to poverty, I willcome to the direct charges against your character. You es-poused such a line of politics (when at last you thought oftaking to them), that, if your country prospered, you lived thelife of a hare, fearing and trembling and ever expecting to bescourged for the crimes of which your conscience accused you,though all have seen how bold you were during the misfor-tunes of the rest. A man who took courage at the death of athousand citizens — what does he deserve at the hands of theliving? A great deal more that I could say about him I shallomit, for it is not all I can tell of his turpitude and infamywhich I ought to let slip from my tongue, but only what is notdisgraceful to myself to mention. Contrast now the ci
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