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No man in the world has ever
seen us drunken or committing outrages, and I hold that I am doing nothing
unfeeling in demanding to receive satisfaction according to the law for the
wrongs I have suffered. This man's sons are welcome, so far as I am concerned,
to be Ithyphalli and Autolecythi; I only pray the gods that these things and all
things like them may recoil upon Conon
and his sons;
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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