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Not only this guerdon of the common wealth but all
your honors have been dragged through the mire and made contemptible by those
execrable and god-forsaken politicians, who make proposals like this on such
easy terms; men who, in their inordinate lust of dishonest gain, put up honors
and civic rewards for sale, like hucksters vending and cheapening their pitiful,
trumpery merchandise, and supply a host of buyers at fixed prices with any
decree they want.
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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