The case is this: To review the private life of Demosthenes would, in my opinion, demand too long a speech. And why need I tell it all now? the story of what happened to him in the matter of the suit over the wound, when he summoned his own cousin, Demomeles of Paeania, before the Areopagus;1 and the cut on his head; or the story of the generalship of Cephisodotus, and the naval expedition to the Hellespont,
1 See Aeschin. 2.93.
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