[213]
To prove the truth of
these statements, please call the witnesses.1
If, however, he says scurrilous things about me,
not pertinent to the question of the embassy, there are many reasons why you
should not listen. I am not on my trial today, and I shall have no second
opportunity2 of speaking. It will only mean that
he is destitute of honest arguments. No culprit would deliberately choose to
prefer accusations, if he had any defence to offer.
1 Here and elsewhere (e.g. Dem. 19.233) Demosthenes has time to insert a few remarks while the witnesses are being collected and before their depositions are read.
2 no second opportunity: lit. “no one will hereafter pour water for me,” i.e. into the clepsydra [57].
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