[74]
But I
was assaulted by a personal enemy early in the day, when he was sober, prompted
by insolence, not by wine, in the presence of many foreigners as well as
citizens, and above all in a temple which I was strictly obliged to enter by
virtue of my office. And, Athenians, I consider that I was prudent, or rather
happily inspired, when I submitted at the time and was not impelled to any
irremediable action; though I fully sympathize with Euaeon and anyone else who,
when provoked, takes the law into his own hands.
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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