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I myself lately saw in some trial a Trallian witness of the name of Philodorus, I saw
Parrhasius, I saw Archidemus, when this identical man Maeandrius came to me as a sort of
attorney, suggesting to me what I might say, if I pleased, against his own fellow-citizens and
his own city. For there is nothing more worthless than that fellow,—nothing more
needy, nothing more infamous. Wherefore, if the Trallians employ him as the relater of their
indignation, and the keeper of their letters, and the witness of their injuries, and the
utterer of their complaints, let them lower their high tone for the future, let them restrain
their high spirit, let them bridle their arrogance, let them confess that the best
representative of their city is to be found in the person of Maeandrius. But if they
themselves have always thought this man a man to be buffeted and trampled upon at home, let
them cease to think that there is any authority in that evidence which there is no respectable
person to father.
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