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great deal of which was such foul abuse that I should shrink from repeating some
of it in your presence. One thing, however, which is an indication of the
fellow's insolence and a proof that the whole affair has been of his doing, I
will tell you. He began to crow, mimicking fighting cocks that have won a battle
and his fellows bade him flap his elbows against his sides like wings. After
this some people who happened to pass took me home stripped as I was, for these
men had gone off taking my cloak with them. When my bearers got to my door, my
mother and the women servants began shrieking and wailing, and it was with
difficulty that I was at length carried to a bath. There I was thoroughly
bathed, and shown to the surgeons.To prove that
these statements of mine are true, I shall call before you the witnesses who
attest them.“
Witnesses
”
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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