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For the case stands thus. If
you dismiss this impeachment, they are all acquitted and not a single one of
them will pay the penalty, for who henceforth would give his verdict against
them when you have crowned the Council of which they were the leading spirits?
But if you convict, in the first place you will have kept your judicial oath;
and further, when you have each of these men before you at their audit, anyone
whom you think guilty you will punish; and anyone who is not, then will be the
time to acquit him. Do not, therefore, accept their words as spoken on behalf of
the Council and of the general public, but be incensed against them as impostors
defending their own interests.
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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