[21] I must tell you the truth—as attaching no value to any but men of that stamp. So who, on seeing you so minded, would not be stimulated to work and speak for the benefit of the State? Moreover, how could you be annoyed with such people? For it is you, and none else, who are judges of their worth.
Before the Council: In Defense of Mantitheus at His Scrutiny. Lysias. W.R.M. Lamb (Translator). London. 1930.
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