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It is unworthy of you,
Athenians, to prefer such a foul reproach to advantages so honorable and so
appropriate to you. For each of you will share individually in the credit of
your joint decision. For it is known to all standing round us,1 as to everyone else, that in this court Leptines is
contending with us, but within the conscience of each member of the jury
humanity is arrayed against envy, justice against malice, and all that is good
against all that is most base.
1 i.e. the general public; the jury were seated.
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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