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With good reason you may have confidence that I entertain this
thought and that I am not now indulging in idle bluff.1 I
placed my fate in your hands, and I faced the trial in order that I might neither be a
traitor to the truth nor place myself beyond the reach of any one of you, but that you
might deal with me as you pleased; for I thought that those from whom I had received all
my blessings ought to possess the privilege even of erring against me if they chose.
1 Demosthenes terminated his second exile by taking poison rather than submit to capture by the soldiers of Antipater, 322 B.C. From this passage it seems that he had been prepared to do so the year before in the same Calauria.
Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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