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For if his grandfather was a state-debtor long ago and the
law ordains that he be his grandfather's heir—if, though he long ago
lost the right to prefer indictments, he still continued to prefer them; and if
he is going to assume that he ought to be acquitted just because he is a
scoundrel of the third generation, there will be no justice in his plea, men of
the jury.To prove that it is admitted by
Theocrines himself that this debt is his own and that he arranged with the
members of the tribe on behalf of his brother and himself for its payment, and
that no jury which has regard to its oath could honorably hold that this
criminal information is without foundation, take, please, the bill which
Scironides introduced in the meeting of the tribe.
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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