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But not content with this, men of
Athens, he actually corrupted
the trainer of my chorus; and if Telephanes, the flute-player, had not proved
the staunchest friend to me, if he had not seen through the fellow's game and
sent him about his business, if he had not felt it his duty to train the chorus
and weld them into shape himself, we could not have taken part in the
competition, Athenians; the chorus would have come in untrained and we should
have been covered with ignominy. Nor did his insolence stop even there. It was
so unrestrained that he bribed the crowned Archon himself; he banded the
choristers against me; he bawled and threatened, standing beside the umpires as
they took the oath he blocked the gangways from the wings,1 nailing up those public thoroughfares without public
authority; he never ceased to cause me untold damage and annoyance.
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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