[16]
If it had been in our power, after setting forth
matters regarding the pedigree and the affidavit itself, to leave the platform,
and to have no need of further words, since practically the most important
arguments would have been advanced, we should not trouble you further. But since
our opponents will not rely upon the laws, but through having forestalled us and
got some control of the situation long ago, and through having entered into
possession of the estate, will use these facts as proofs, and declare that they
are the heirs, it is perhaps necessary to discuss these matters as well, and to
prove that of all humankind our opponents are the most arbitrary.
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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