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How he trumped up a charge of
desertion against me and bribed another to bring the action—a
scoundrel ready for any dirty job, the filthy Euctemon—that I shall
pass over; for that blackmailer never moved for a trial, nor had Meidias hired
him for any other purpose than to have this notice posted up before the Tribal
Heroes for all men to read, “Euctemon of the Lusian deme has indicted
Demosthenes of the Paeanian deme for desertion of his post.” Indeed I
think he would have been delighted, if it had been in order, to add that Meidias
had hired him to indict me. But I pass that over, because Euctemon, having
disfranchised himself by failing to follow up the charge, has given me all the
satisfaction that I require.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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