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Meidias will suffer no distressing hardship if he shall come
to possess just as much as the majority of you, whom he now insults and calls
beggars, and if he is stripped of the superfluous wealth that incites him to
such insolence. Surely such men have no right to ask of you, “Do not
try the case by the laws, gentlemen of the jury; do not help the man who has
suffered serious wrongs; do not observe your oaths; grant us your verdict as a
favour.” If they plead for Meidias, that is what their plea will come
to, though these may not be their actual words.
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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