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Of those outrages which were committed in public or
before the umpires in the theater, you are yourselves my witnesses, all of you,
gentlemen of the jury. And surely the statements on which most reliance should
be placed are those of which the jury can themselves attest the truth. So after
he had already corrupted the umpires in the men's contest, he put the cap, as it
were, on all his previous acts of wantonness by two outrages: he assaulted my
person, and he was chiefly responsible for preventing my tribe, which was
winning, from gaining the prize.
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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