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he suffered me as head
of the Sacred Embassy to lead it in the name of the city to the Nemean shrine of
Zeus; he raised no objection when I was chosen with two colleagues to inaugurate
the sacrifice to the Dread Goddesses.1 Would he have allowed all this, if he had had one jot or
tittle of proof for the charges that he was trumping up against me? I cannot
believe it. So then this is conclusive proof that he was seeking in mere wanton
spite to drive me from my native land.
1 The Eumenides （Furies）, whose sanctuary was a cave under the Areopagus.
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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