[8]
No doubt I shall be told that the defendant
is himself a man of sober character coming of a good family, that he has done
you many noble services in private and in public life and that therefore you are
justified in sparing him. You must all have often heard that, when Aristogiton's
father Cydimachus was condemned to death and fled from the city, this admirable
son allowed his own father to lack the bare necessities of life, while he
survived, and do without a proper burial when he died: a fact for which evidence
was often brought against him;
Dinarchus. Minor Attic Orators in two volumes, 2, with an English translation by J. O. Burtt, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1962.
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