Gentlemen of the
jury, it is chiefly because I consider that the State will benefit by the repeal
of this law, but partly also out of sympathy with the young son of Chabrias,
that I have consented to support the plaintiffs to the best of my ability. It is
clear, men of Athens, that Leptines
and anyone else who defends the law will have nothing fair to say in its favor,
but will urge the unworthiness of certain persons who have used their exemption
as a means of shirking the public services, and he will take his stand chiefly
on that ground.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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