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but in fact he has deserted the path
of right and justice, he has flinched from the proof of recent guilt, and then,
after a long interval, he makes a hotchpotch of imputation and banter and
scurrility, and stands on a false pretence, denouncing me, but indicting
Ctesiphon. He sets in the forefront
of the controversy his private quarrel with me, in which he has never confronted
me fairly; yet he is avowedly seeking to disfranchise somebody else.
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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