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When matters had gone thus far, it was natural that after
our return home there should exist between us feelings of anger and hatred.
However, on my own part I swear by the gods I never saw fit to bring an action
against them, or to pay any attention to what had happened. I simply made this
resolve—in future to be on my guard, and to take care to have nothing
to do with people of that sort.I wish in the
first place to bring before you depositions proving these statements, and then
to show what I have suffered at the hands of the defendant himself, in order
that you may see that Conon, who should have dealt rigorously with the first
offences, has himself added to these far more outrageous acts of his own
doing.“
Depositions
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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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