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This fellow Lacritus,
men of the jury, has not come into court relying on the justice of his case, but
realizing perfectly what he and his brothers have done in the matter of this
loan; and because he considers that he is clever and will easily provide
arguments to defend evil practices,1 he thinks he will lead you astray just as
he pleases. For it is precisely in these matters that he professes himself to be
clever, and he asks money, and collects pupils, promising to instruct them in
these very things.
1 The close parallel between this passage and the portrayal of the “school” of Socrates in Aristoph. Cl. will hardly escape the reader.
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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