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If I were entering upon this course, men of
the jury, without having been wronged, or were trumping up a false charge
against Olympiodorus, or if I were unwilling to refer the matter to men who are
friends both of Olympiodorus and myself, or if I were refusing to adopt any
other fair course of action, be assured that I should be thoroughly ashamed, and
should think myself a worthless sort of fellow: but as it is, the loss I have
suffered at the hands of Olympiodorus is no small one; I have not refused to
accept any referee, and I swear by Zeus the Supreme that it is not willingly,
but with the utmost possible reluctance, that I have been forced by the
defendant to bring this suit.
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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