It was not from
any love of litigation I protest by the gods, men of the jury, that I brought
this suit against Boeotus, nor was I unaware that it will seem strange to many
people that I should bring suit because somebody thought right to have the same
name as myself; but it was necessary to have the matter decided in your court,
in view of the consequences that must result if I do not get this matter
righted.
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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