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What does this mean, Eubulus? At the trial of your cousin
Hegesilaus, and recently at that of Thrasybulus, an uncle of Niceratus, before
the first vote of the jury1 you would not even answer when you
were called; on the question of damages you did get up to speak, but you had not
a word to say in their favor, and merely asked the jury to excuse you. So you do
not mount the tribune for your own kinsmen and for men who have a claim on your
services, and will you mount it for Aeschines,
1 The verdict of “guilty” or “not guilty.” A second vote was in some cases （e.g. at the trial of Socrates） required to decide the punishment.
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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