[46]
Indeed he went to such
extreme lengths that even if a slave was assaulted, he granted him the same
right of bringing a public action. He thought that he ought to look, not at the
rank of the sufferer, but at the nature of the act, and when he found the act
unjustifiable, he would not give it his sanction either in regard to a slave or
in any other case. For nothing, men of Athens, nothing in the world is more intolerable than a
personal outrage, nor is there anything that more deserves your resentment. Read
me the actual law with regard to it. There is nothing like hearing the law's own
words.
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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