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for he accused me of things that anyone
would have shrunk from mentioning, unless he were a man of the same stamp as
himself, saying that I had killed my own father. He also concocted a public
indictment for impiety, not against me directly, but against my uncle, whom he
brought to trial, charging him with impiety for associating with me, as though I
had committed the alleged acts, and if it had ended in my uncle's conviction,
who would have suffered more grievously at the defendant's hands than I? For
who, whether friend or stranger, would have consented to have any dealings with
me? What state would have admitted within its borders a man deemed guilty of
such impiety? Not a single one.
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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