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For assuredly, men of Athens, when all of you and the whole
nation passed censure upon all the results of the peace, when you refused
participation in the doings of the Amphictyonic Council, when your attitude
towards Philip is still one of anger and suspicion, marking the whole of his
conduct as sacrilegious and shameful, as well as unjust and injurious to
yourselves,—it would be discreditable that you, who have entered this
court to adjudicate at the scrutiny of those transactions, and have taken the
judicial oath on behalf of the commonwealth, that you, I say, when the author of
these wrongs has been placed in your power, caught red-handed after perpetrating
such crimes, should return a verdict of acquittal.
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