[2]
It remains for us, Athenians, especially when
contesting a case never paralleled in the experience of the city, to make a
general exhortation to you all. May we ask you first to pardon those of us who
have still to speak if there are certain points which we raise again; our aim is
not to weary you by alluding twice to the same matters but to arouse your anger
all the more. Secondly, may we ask you not to surrender the rights enjoyed by
the whole city or to barter away our common security in exchange for the
arguments of the defendant.
Dinarchus. Minor Attic Orators in two volumes, 2, with an English translation by J. O. Burtt, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1962.
The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.