[25]
And
first, it is pretty evident from his private conversation as reported to me that
he will say that, if I had really suffered from him as I assert, I ought to have
brought various personal suits against him, one for willful damage, arising out
of the destruction of the robes and golden crowns, and another for assault,
arising out of his alleged attack on my person; but that I ought most
emphatically not to have brought him to a public trial and proposed a penalty or
a fine which he must pay.
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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