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Gentlemen of the jury, I am amazed at the man's effrontery.
To think that, when he and Androtion were in office, he never had any compassion
for the great body of your fellow-citizens, who were exhausted with paying
income-tax, and that then when Androtion was called upon to refund money, both
sacred and civil, which he had long before stolen from the State, he must needs
propose a law to deprive you of the double repayment of civil, and the tenfold
repayment of sacred, liabilities! Thus the whole mass of you citizens has been
attacked by a man who was immediately afterwards to pretend that he had framed
his law as a friend of the people.
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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