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Or
what will you say, Athenians, what will you say, if someone detects and
questions those of you who have voted for acquittal? What will you answer? That
you were satisfied with him? But who will dare to say that? Who will choose to
inherit this fellow's wickedness, with the execration and infamy that it
entails? Will each of you deny that he acquitted him? In that case you will have
to invoke a curse on the acquitters, as a guarantee from each of you that he was
not himself one of them.
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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