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I would
have you regard the following point also, men of the jury. Callippus was one of
your citizens, a man able both to render a service and to do an injury, while
Cephisiades was a resident alien and a person without influence; so one cannot
suppose that my father would have taken the side of Cephisiades in defiance of
justice rather than do what was right for the plaintiff.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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