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4 Wherefore one may justly take you to task because, while you know well that many great housesThis term is used of estates in Isoc. 8.117. Here it is used of both families and their estates. Cf. Isoc. 8.88. have been ruinedBy the casualties and expenses of war. by flatterersDemagogic leaders of the war party, later termed sycophants. See Isoc. 8.121 ff. and while in your private affairs you abhor those who practice this art, in your public affairs you are not so minded towards them; on the contrary, while you denounce those who welcome and enjoy the society of such men, you yourselves make it manifest that you place greater confidence in them than in the rest of your fellow citizens.

5 Indeed, you have caused the orators to practice and study, not what will be advantageous to the state, but how they may discourse in a manner pleasing to you. And it is to this kind of discourse that the majority of them have resorted also at the present time, since it has become plain to all that you will be better pleased with those who summon you to war than with those who counsel peace;