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Of course Conon will entreat you and wail aloud. But
consider, which of us is more deserving of pity, a man who has suffered such
treatment as I have at the hands of the defendant, if I am to go forth having
met with the further disgrace of losing my suit, or Conon, if he is to be punished? Is it to the advantage of each
one of you that a man be permitted to indulge in battery and outrage, or that he
be not permitted? I certainly think he should not be. Well then, if you let him
off, there will be many such; if you punish him, fewer.
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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