[52]
But why am I so
earnest in urging this? The defendant himself knows well that he has sinned
against me and sinned against the gods in whose name he swore, and that he is a
perjurer. But something has deranged him, men of the jury, and he is not in his
senses. I am pained and I feel shame, men of the jury, at what I am about to
tell you, but I am forced to tell it, in order that you, in whose hands the
verdict lies, may hear all the facts before you reach the conclusion regarding
us which may seem to you best.
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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