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For my part I hold that it is
absolutely your duty, men of the jury, to fix your attention on the matter at
issue and on nothing else, and then, if my plea seems to you just and in
accordance with law, to give me your support, caring nothing for the fact that
it is not Demosthenes who prefers the charges, but a mere stripling. You are
bound also to hold that the laws are not more binding when one presents them to
you carefully in rhetorical language than when they are recited in the speech of
every day. No; they are the same laws; and you should all the more readily give
aid to the young and inexperienced, since they are less likely to lead you
astray.
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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