[3]
I shall make a reasonable and fair request of you all, that
you hear with goodwill what I have to say regarding my special plea, and that
you give your attention to every aspect of the case. For, while hosts of cases
have been tried in Athens, I think it will be shown that no man has ever brought
before you one so marked by shamelessness and malice as this, which this fellow
has had the audacity to bring into your court. I shall with all possible brevity
set before you all the facts of the case.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.