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I am well aware, men of Athens, that, although Aristocrates will be quite unable to
disprove the charge of framing his decree in open defiance of the laws, he will
make an attempt to shuffle away the most serious part of the
accusation,—namely, that from beginning to end of his decree he does
not order any trial of a very grave indictment. On that point I do not think I
need say much; but I will prove clearly from the actual phrasing of the decree
that he himself does not suppose that the man accused will get any trial at all.
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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