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Circumstances for which the defence have only themselves to blame have made it necessary that my charge should be directed against them, and them alone. One would have expected them to seek vengeance for the dead and support the prosecution; but as it is, the opposite is the case; they are themselves my opponents and the murderers, as both I and my indictment1 state.
1 i.e., the charge as formally registered with the βασιλεύς (cf. Antiph. 6.38, 41 ff.). The action itself was of course a δίκη φόνου