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Is it not an
outrage, men of the jury, that, whereas, if I had been chosen by lot as priest,
even as I had been nominated, it would have been my duty to offer sacrifice on
behalf of these people, and Eubulides would have had to join in the sacrifice
with me,—is it not an outrage, I ask, that these same people should
not allow me even to share in the sacrifices with them? It is plain, then, men
of Athens, that in all previous time
I have been acknowledged as a citizen by all those who now accuse me;
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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