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since I in person was struck by him and insulted as
perhaps no chorus-master was ever insulted before, and since I am here to follow
up the verdict which the Assembly pronounced in indignation and anger at such
conduct, for these reasons I shall not shrink even from an appeal to you. For,
if I may say so, it is now I who am in the position of a defendant, if indeed to
obtain no redress for an insult is the real calamity.
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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