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This, then, is what is
ordained in the laws; but if Conon
says, “We belong to a club of Ithyphalli, and in our love-affairs we
strike and throttle whom we please,” are you, then, going to let him
off with a laugh? I think not. No one of you would have been seized with a fit
of laughter, if he had happened to be present when I was dragged and stripped
and maltreated, when I was borne home on a litter to the house which I had left
strong and well, and my mother rushed out, and the women set up such a wailing
and screaming （as if someone had died in the house） that some
of the neighbors sent to inquire what it was that had happened.
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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