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But when
the whole people, acting honorably and rightly, evinced such anger, such
exasperation, such deep concern at the wrongs which they knew I had suffered,
that, in spite of the frantic efforts of the defendant and a few supporters,
they were deaf to their arguments, shut their eyes to their wealth and their
promises, and condemned him by an unanimous show of hands, thereupon, gentlemen
of the jury, many citizens, including some of you who are here in court, came to
me and demanded and even implored that I should take the further step of
bringing Meidias under your jurisdiction; and they did so, I think, for two
reasons, men of Athens, because, so
help me heaven! they thought that my own wrongs were serious, and they also
wished to punish Meidias for conduct which they had witnessed on other
occasions, as a scoundrel and a ruffian who could no longer be tolerated.
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