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It happened that we were turning
back from the temple of Persephonê,1 and on our walk were again about opposite the Leocorion
when we met them. When we got close to them one of them, I don't know which,
fell upon Phanostratus and pinned him, while the defendant Conon together with his son and the son of
Andromenes threw themselves upon me. They first stripped me of my cloak, and
then, tripping me up they thrust me into the mud and leapt upon me and beat me
with such violence that my lip was split open and my eyes closed; and they left
me in such a state that I could neither get up nor utter a sound. As I lay there
I heard them utter much outrageous language,
1 The site of this temple, as that of the Leocorion, remains uncertain.
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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