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In the same way again, if you
strike or abuse the Archon when wearing his crown, you are disfranchised; but if
you assault him as a private citizen, you are liable to a private suit.
Moreover, this is true not only of these officials, but of everyone to whom the
State grants the inviolability of a crowned office or of any other honor.
Therefore in my case also, if on any other day in the year Meidias had wronged
me as a private citizen, he would have had to give me private satisfaction;
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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