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People came to me
privately from all sides exhorting me to exact punishment from my opponent for
the wrongs he had done us. They flung in my teeth the charge that I was the most
cowardly of humankind, if, being so closely related to them, I did not take
vengeance for the injuries done my sister, my father-in-law, my sister's
children, and my own wife, and if I did not bring before you this woman who is
guilty of such flagrant impiety toward the gods, of such outrage toward the
commonwealth, and of such contempt for your laws, and by prosecuting her and by
my arguments convicting her of crime, to enable you to deal with her as you
might see fit.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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