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And for this you
will all pardon me, I am sure, when you hear what I have suffered. For, grievous
as was the injury which at that time fell to my lot, it was no more so than the
subsequent insults of the defendant. I ask as my right, therefore, and implore
you all without distinction, to listen with goodwill, while I tell you what I
have suffered, and then, if you think that I have been the victim of wrongful
and lawless acts, to render me the aid which is my due. I shall state to you
from the beginning each incident as it occurred in the fewest words I can.
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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