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If you are to establish the custom, that
those who are able speakers and who enjoy a reputation are more to be believed
than men of less ability, it will be against yourselves that you will have
established this custom. I beg you therefore, if you ever decided any other case
upon its merits, without becoming partisans of either side, whether the
plaintiff's or the defendant's, but looking to justice alone, to decide the
present case upon these principles. And I shall set forth the facts to you from
the beginning.
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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