[42] All this it was, Archias, that made me long to have him with me, to hear from his own lips what he thought about the state of things, and be able at any time of need, abandoning the flatterers who infest us, to hear the plain words of an independent mind and profit by sincere advice. And I might fairly have drawn his attention to the ungrateful nature of those Athenians for whom he had risked all when he might have had firmer and less unconscionable friends.
Archias
O King, your other ends you might have gained, but that you would have told him to no purpose; his love of Athens was a madness beyond cure.Antipater
It was so indeed; 'twere vain to deny it. But how died he?Archias
O King, there is further wonder in store for you.Demosthenis encomium. Lucian of Samosota. Henry Watson Fowler (Translator), Francis George Fowler (Translator). Medford, MA, USA. 2023-08-01.
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