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If then Aeschines had confined his charges to the matters alleged in
the prosecution, I should have immediately addressed my defence to the
resolution of the Council; but as he has wastefully devoted the greater part of
his speech to irrelevant topics, mostly false accusations, I conceive it to be
both fair and necessary, men of Athens, to say a few words first on those matters, lest any of
you, misled by extraneous arguments, should listen with estrangement to my
justification in respect of the indictment.
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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