It is perhaps
necessary, men of the jury, even for those who have neither practice nor skill
in speaking to come into court when they have been wronged by anyone, especially
if it be by those who should be the last to wrong them, as has now come to pass
with me. For, although I have been unwilling, men of the jury, to go to law with
Olympiodorus, who is a relative of mine and whose sister is my wife, I have been
forced to do so because of the magnitude of the wrongs which he has done me.
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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