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Is it not,
then, an outrageous thing, men of the jury, that, while these people have made
no complaint against me, although they suffered such heavy damages, nor has
anyone else of those who suffered misfortune, but they have accepted their lot,
this man should bring a malicious suit? But that he is himself at fault, first
in that he made the road narrower by extending his wall beyond the property
line, in order to enclose the trees of the road, and, secondly, in that he threw
the rubbish into it, from which actions it resulted that he made the road higher
as well as narrower—of this you will presently gain clearer knowledge
from the depositions.
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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