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Stop reading.
Do you hear, fellow, what it says?—“or to any one of the
eponymous heroes.”Read the deposition
of the members of the tribe.“
Deposition
”It is likely indeed, men of the jury,
that the defendant would have regard for few persons and for those who spend
most of their time at sea, as Micon does, when he felt neither fear nor shame in
the presence of his tribesmen, in the first place, when administering their
public business in such a way that they convicted him of embezzlement, and in
the second place, although he had been fined and knew well that the laws forbade
him to prefer indictments until he should pay, when defying the laws and holding
that, while other state-debtors could exercise no public function, he had the
right to be superior to the laws.
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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