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As for Aeschines' topsy-turvy
miscellany of arguments about the statutes transcribed for comparison,1 I vow to Heaven that I do not believe that you
understand the greater part of them, and I am sure they were quite
unintelligible to me. I can only offer a plain, straightforward plea on the
rights of the matter. So far from claiming, as he invidiously suggested just
now, that I am not to be called to account, I fully admit that all my life long
I have been accountable for all my official acts and public counsels;
1 The laws alleged to be violated were posted in court side by side with the law or decree which was the object of the prosecution.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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