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Of all these
heinous crimes against the commonwealth, gentlemen of the jury, he has been
proved guilty. No element of baseness is lacking. Bribe-taker, sycophant, guilty
under the curse, a liar, a traitor to his friends,—here are flagrant
charges indeed! Yet he will not defend himself against any one of them; he has
no honest and straightforward defence to offer. As for the topics on which, as I
am informed, he intends to dwell, they border on insanity,—though,
perhaps, a man devoid of any honest plea cannot help resorting to all manner of
shifts.
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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