Antiphon, Third Tetralogy, Second Speech for the Defense, section 1

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The defendant, not because he has judged himself guilty, but because he was alarmed by the vehemence the prosecution, has withdrawn.¹ As to us, his friends, we are discharging our sacred duty to him more fitly by aiding him while he is alive than by aiding him after he is dead. Admittedly, he himself would have pleaded his own case best; but since the present course appeared the safer, it remains for us, to whom his loss would be a very bitter grief, to defend him.

1 A touch of realism. It was recognized that the defendant in a δίκη φόνου had the right of withdrawing into exile half-way through the trial, if he saw no hope of an acquittal. Cf. Herodes, Introduction.

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