Demosthenes does not plead — he accuses, he burns. And in this 1662 edition of On the Crown, prepared by the meticulous and austere P.B. Merigoni, his voice emerges not from the ruins of Athens, but from the quiet, ruthless clarity of early modern scholarship. The stakes are already death. Merigoni simply sharpens the blade.

This is courtroom rhetoric as an art of war — a speech that reads like the record of a man dismantling an empire with grammar, logic, and divine fury. Every sentence is a stone placed with surgical intent. Demosthenes stands alone, half-statesman, half-myth, his words wrapped in centuries of dust and reverence.

This edition is not for casual readers. It demands silence, attention, and a kind of intellectual surrender. Because when Demosthenes begins, the room falls away — and you are standing in the shadow of something ancient, enormous, and utterly unforgiving

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