On the False Embassy

Now on that occasion he observed to the jury: Demosthenes will conduct this man’s defence, and will denounce my conduct of the embassy; and then, if he leads you astray by his speech, he will go about in his conceited way, and boast: How did I do it? What did I say? Why, I led the jury clean away from the question; filched the whole case from them, and came off triumphant. Then do not follow my example: address your defence to the real issue. You had your opportunity of denouncing and saying what you chose when you were the prosecutor.

Moreover, having no witnesses to produce in support of your accusations, you quoted verses to the jury:

1. Rumor, that many people spread abroad,
2. Dieth not wholly: Rumor is a god.