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and is it true, Demosthenes, that you at Athens tried to exclude Cersobleptes from the treaty, but pitied him when you got to Oreus? And do you today accuse me of having taken bribes, you who were once fined by the Senate of the Areopagus for not prosecuting your suit for assault, that time when you indicted your cousin Demomeles of Paeania for the cut on your head that you gave yourself with your own hand?1 And do you put on airs before these jurymen, as though they did not know that you are the bastard son of Demosthenes the cutler?2

1 The reference is to a family quarrel which grew out of the suit of the young Demosthenes against his guardian.

2 A bastard in the sense that his mother was of a Scythian family, and so debarred from legitimate Athenian wedlock. See on Aeschin. 2.22.

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