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for if you had at that time
brought a witness and appealed to his testimony, he would now have proved from
his own knowledge precisely how the several matters stood, and would have
refuted these men who are so glib with their testimony. But, I fancy, you have
all come to despise one so young as I am, and so inexperienced in affairs. But,
men of Athens, I adduce their own
acts as the strongest evidence against them all; for how is it that not one of
them ever protested, or lodged a complaint, or even uttered a word of censure,
but they were content to submit to this injury?
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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