Since Eubulides
has brought many false charges against me, and has uttered slanders which are
neither becoming nor just, I shall try, men of the jury, to prove by a true and
fair statement that I am entitled to citizenship, and that I have been
unworthily treated by this fellow. I beg you all, men of the jury, and implore
and beseech you, that in view of the great importance of the present trial and
the shame and ruin which conviction entails, you will hear me, as you have heard
my opponent, in silence; indeed that you will listen to me with greater
goodwill, if possible, than you have listened to him （for it is
reasonable to suppose that you are more favorably disposed to those who stand in
peril）, but, if this cannot be, at least with equal goodwill.
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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