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This man was
liable to many criminal informations, and has transgressed all the laws which
bear upon these matters; but the most unheard of among his acts we found to be
the denunciation which he lodged concerning the merchant ship; so that my father
put this at the head of the criminal information which he gave me. First, then,
the clerk shall read to you the law regarding those who lodge denunciations and
do not carry them through, but compromise in defiance of the laws. For it is
with this, I think, that I ought to begin my speech. Then will follow the
denunciation itself which the defendant lodged against Micon.Read.“
Law
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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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