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Ah, but it may be said that he is a man who loves peace and
hates litigation. I could indeed wish, men of the jury, that he were a man of
that type. But here is the truth: you are so generous and so kind toward your
fellow-men that you did not deem it right to banish from the city even the sons
of the Thirty Tyrants1; but Boeotus, plotting against me with Menecles,
who is the prime mover in all these schemes, having managed to get up a quarrel
that from disputes and revilings should come to blows, cut his own head, and
summoned me before the Areopagus on a charge of murderous assault, with the
intention of driving me into exile from the city.
1 In 403 B.C.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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