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>and then Demosthenes' speech builds up to its majestic climax: "But it is not true, men of Athens! It is not true that you made a mistake when you chose to risk your lives to defend the freedom and the safety of all—I swear by our forefathers, who met the charge at Marathon, and stood shoulder to shoulder at Plataea, and fought in the ships at Salamis and Artemisium, and all the rest of the good men who lie in the public tombs, all of whom alike, deeming them worthy of this honor, the city buried, O Aeschines, not the successful and victorious only. And justly so. For what was the work of good men, this they all performed; and what fate the god had chosen for them, this they received."