Gentlemen of the jury, Euctemon finding himself
wronged by Androtion, thinks it his duty to obtain satisfaction for himself and
at the same time to up hold the constitution; and that is what I also shall
essay to do, if I am equal to the task. As a matter of fact the outrages that
Euctemon has endured, many and serious and utterly illegal as they were, are
slighter than the trouble that Androtion has caused me. Euctemon was the object
of a plot to get money out of him and to eject him unfairly from an office of
your appointment; but if the charges that Androtion trumped up against me had
been accepted in your courts, not a single living man would have opened his door
to me,
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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