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But of course he could have moved for a fresh trial on the ground of nullity,
and so made me the object of his litigation as at the first. But no; that was
not his game. To save him from defending a suit in which the penalty was fixed
by law at ten minas—the suit in which he neglected to
apppear—to save him from paying the penalty if guilty or if innocent,
a citizen of Athens must needs be
disfranchised, and must obtain neither pardon nor right of defence nor any sort
of equitable treatment, privileges extended even to those whose guilt is
established.
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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