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the claim was proved manifestly false, and I got the better of that intrigue;
then, again, he secured two awards against me for default, one in an action
brought in his own name for one thousand drachmae, and another in an action
which he persuaded his brother Callicrates, who is here in court, to bring. I
beg you all to listen to me, and to give me your attention, not because I am
going to show myself an able speaker, but in order that you may learn from the
facts themselves, that I am manifestly the victim of a malicious and baseless
suit.
Demosthenes. 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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