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For consider this: a man who had scandalously
misconducted his embassy, and who had given away whole provinces in which the
gods should have been worshipped by you and your allies, disfranchised one who
had prosecuted him at duty's call.1 And all
for what? That he himself may win neither compassion nor indulgence for his own
transgressions. Moreover, in accusing him, he went out of his way to speak evil
of me, and again at the Assembly he declared he would lay an indictment, with
other such threats. And why? In order that you may extend your best indulgence
to me when I, who have the most accurate knowledge of his villainies, and have
watched him closely throughout, appear as his prosecutor.
1 Demosthenes asserts that Timarchus prosecuted Aeschines from purely patriotic motives. The Greek, however, admits of more than one interpretation.
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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