Nothing is more
painful, men of the jury, than when a man is addressed by name as
“brother” of certain persons, whom in fact he regards as
enemies, and when he is compelled, on account of the many cruel wrongs which he
has suffered at their hands, to come into court; as is my case now.
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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