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I shall not, then, trouble to show that the defendant has
proved himself more brutal than any oligarchy anywhere in the world. But here,
in our own city, at what period were the most outrageous things done? You will
all say, “Under the Thirty Tyrants.” Now under the Thirty,
as we are informed, no man forfeited the power to save his life who could hide
himself at home; what we denounce the Thirty for is that they arrested men
illegally in the market-place. This man displayed a brutality so far in excess
of theirs that he, a public man under a democracy, turned every man's private
house into a jail by conducting the Eleven into your homes.
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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