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He deserves then, does he not, to be let off now,
seeing that he has been so public-spirited and ambitious to serve both with his
property and his person? No; far from it. For it is the duty of honest jurymen
to give respite to those citizens, when they have need of such help, who, when
prosperous, willingly perform public services and remain in the list of the
Three Hundred; but as to those who consider as lost whatever money they spend
upon the state, you should bring them into the list of those who make advance
contributions, and not suffer them to run away from their duty.Read first the deposition, and then his declaration.“
Deposition
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Declaration
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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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