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You therefore, Athenians, have all risen to such a height of
benevolence and piety that during those days you have even suspended the
exaction of penalties due for past offences; but Meidias, as I shall prove,
chose those very same days to commit offences that call for the severest
punishment. I intend to describe in order each outrage of which I have been the
victim, before I speak of the blows in which his attacks culminated, for there
is not a single one of those attacks for which he will not be shown to have
deserved death.
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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