The council realized beforehand the strength of these men and their influence as orators and statesmen, but did not consider that if incrimination or danger was threatening its country it ought to be influenced by any misrepresentation . Dinarchus. Against Demosthenes. Book 1. Section 5.
Image: Death of Demosthenes by Alfred-Henri Bramtot, 1879, at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor VladoubidoOo.
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