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I should not be
surprised if they try to shed tears and make themselves seem worthy of pity. But
I deem that, in view of this, you should all remember that it is the part of
shameless men, or rather of men with no sense of right, after having squandered
their fortune in gluttony and wine-bibbing along with Aristocrates and Diognetus
and others of that stamp in shameful and evil fashion, to weep and wail now in
the hope of getting what belongs to others. You would have good cause to weep
over your former doings. Yet it is not now a time to weep, but to prove that you
did not give a release, or that action may be had afresh for the matters
released, or that it is legal to bring an action after the lapse of twenty
years, when the law has fixed five years as the limit. These are the questions
which these gentlemen are to decide.
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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