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then the junior clerk, doing the dirty work of public offices for a few
shillings a month: and at last, not so long ago, the parasite of the greenrooms,
eking out by sponging what you earned as a player of trumpery parts! What is the
life you will claim, and where have you lived it, when such is too clearly the
sort of life you really have lived? And then the assurance of the man! Bringing
another man1 before this court on a charge of unnatural crime! However, I
will let that go for the present. First read these depositions.“
Depositions
”
1 Timarchus; see Introd. p. 234.
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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