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And then how absurd when he says that I plotted to disenfranchise him and
bring him to utter ruin, to have written in the charge that I ordered a slave to
do this,—a thing which even a citizen could not do to another
citizen.1 What, then, is the meaning of
this? I suppose that, being unable to refer to me the doing of any of these
acts, but wishing to go on with his malicious suit, he wrote in the complaint
that I had given the order. There was no sense in his charge, if he had not done
this.
1 That is, disenfranchisement could come only by act of the state itself.
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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