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But the defendant is here with nothing whatever to support
his acquittal, with no sound plea based on the facts, with no past record of a
decent life, with not a single point in his favour. He imagines that he may be
saved by what would have frightened anyone else, though innocent; for he bases
the hope of his acquittal on the enormity of his wickedness.
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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