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But of one thing I
am perfectly certain, and you should be equally so-that if I had not lodged the
public plaint but had brought a civil action, the opposite argument would have
been used against me, that if there was any truth in my statements, I ought to
have lodged a public plaint and claimed redress at the time when the offences
were committed; for the chorus was a state-chorus, the apparel was being
prepared entirely for a public festival, and I, the aggrieved party, was
official chorus-master. Who then would dream of any other form of redress than
that which the law provides against those who profane a festival?
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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