. . . to conduct the prosecution,1 allow me also in the same way to follow out, so far as I am able, the line of defence which I have chosen. I must ask you all, while I am speaking, to refrain from interrupting me with: “Why are you telling us this?” And do not add anything of your own to the prosecution's argument; rather <attend> to the defence . . .
1 The sense is no doubt: “Since you allowed my opponents to conduct the prosecution as they wished, allow me also a fair hearing in my defence.”
Hyperides. 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.
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