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“Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Life of Demosthenes.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2ba15803f607ae670de0be8cce3f6a4f5ed049d555dd5a2674e5a534aafc5c66
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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