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Men of Athens, you have now heard how many outrages I endured, both in
my own person and in the performance of my public service, and how many escapes
I have had from plots and ill-treatment of every kind. Yet I have omitted much,
for it was not easy perhaps to mention everything. But the case is this. By none
of his acts was I alone wronged, but in the wrongs inflicted on the chorus my
whole tribe, the tenth part of the citizens, shared; by his plots and attacks
against me he wronged the laws, to which each of you looks for protection;lastly
by all these acts he wronged the god to whose service I had been dedicated and
that divine and awful power beyond our ken—the power of Holiness.
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