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Therefore, gentlemen of the jury, I appeal to you all, and
implore you first to grant me a favorable hearing, and secondly, if I prove that
the insults of Meidias touch, not me only, but you and the laws and the whole
body of citizens, to come at once to any rescue and to your own. For the case
stands thus, Athenians. I was the victim and it was my person that was then
outraged; but now the question to be fought out and decided is whether Meidias
is to be allowed to repeat his performances and insult anyone and everyone of
you with impunity.
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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