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[10] Thus not one of the charges brought against me has any foundation. But even if the probabilities, as distinct from the facts, point to me as the murderer, it is acquittal that I deserve from you far more than anything else; since first, it is clear that if I struck back, it was only because I was being deeply wronged; had that not been so, it would never have been thought likely that I was the murderer; and secondly, it is the murderers, not those accused of the murder, whom it is your duty to convict.1
1 i.e. （1） Even if he can he proved guilty, there are extenuating circumstances which will make it impossible to condemn him. （2） But he cannot be proved guilty in any case.
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