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But how stands it with the present trial? You who are
to give the verdict have come here knowing better than we, the accusers, that
this man, since he is a state-debtor and registered as such in the Acropolis,
has no right to speak at all; so that each of you is in the position of an
accuser, knowing the facts and not needing to be told them.
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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