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For,
if I had been your slave and not a citizen, seeing my industry and my goodwill
toward you, you would have given me respite from my expenditures and would have
turned to one of the rest who was running away from his duty. In the same
manner, when I shall have paid the three talents for which I became liable to
you, and shall have recovered my losses, you will relieve some other person
among those in distress and turn to me. But for the present discharge me, men of
the jury, I beg of you all; and since I have spoken only what is just, I implore
you to come to my aid, and not to suffer me to be harried by these men.
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