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Nay, he was not ashamed to look
even that audience in the face and bring such a terrible calamity upon an
innocent man; but having set one goal before him, to ruin me by every means in
his power, he thought himself bound to leave no stone unturned, as if it were
only right that when any man, having been insulted by him, claimed redress and
refused to keep silence, he should be removed by banishment without a chance of
escape, should even find himself convicted of desertion, should defend himself
on a capital charge, and should be in imminent danger of crucifixion. Yet when
Meidias is proved guilty of all this, as well as of his insults when I was
chorus-master, what leniency, what compassion shall he deserve at your hands?
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