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Regarding
the rapacity and vile character of the plaintiff I purpose to speak at length
before you later on, though what you have even now heard gives you a fair idea
of it. But I shall now undertake to show you, that the testimony which has been
given, about which you are going to cast your votes, is true. But one request I
make of you, men of the jury, and it is a reasonable one—that you will
give us both a fair hearing. This is as much in your interest as in mine, for
the more accurate your knowledge of the facts, the more just and in harmony with
your oaths will be the vote you will cast regarding 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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