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If anyone interrupts me with a question,
“And where, pray, are such things likely to happen?” there
is nothing to prevent me from asking, “And who is likely to kill
Charidemus?” Well, we need not go into those questions; only, inasmuch
as the decree now on trial refers, not to any past transaction, but to something
of which nobody knows whether it will happen or not, let the uncertainty of the
future be common ground to both sides; let us, as mankind are wont, adjust our
expectations thereto, and consider the matter on the presumption that both the
one contingency and the other may possibly happen.
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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