Excerpt from The Oration of Demosthenes Against Meidias: Edited for Use in Schools and Colleges, With Introduction, Analysis, Notes and Index Demosthenes seized the opportunity of being able to appeal to religious feeling and superstition in hopes of checking, by a signal example of punishment, the insolence and lawlessness of the rich. But however public-spirited the procedure and the pleas of Demosthenes may have been, and however deserving of condign punishment the general misconduct of Meidias, these considerations do not remove the unpleasant impression that Demosthenes was straining and twisting facts and processes with the immediate object of exacting vengeance for personal wrongs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.