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and in addition to these reasons, since
I, men of the jury, have been betrayed （for the truth shall be told
you） by persons in whom I trusted because of their enmity to the
defendant, men who after hearing the facts and promising to stand by me, have
now left me in the lurch,1 and have come to terms with
the defendant in this suit of mine; so that I shall have no one even as a
fellow-pleader, unless someone from among my own kinsmen shall come to my aid.
1 This is commonly believed to be a fling at Demosthenes.
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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