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Next I brought an action against
Meidias for slander and gained the verdict by default, for he did not appear. He
had put himself into my power by failing to pay the fine, but I did not lay
hands on his property. Instead I obtained leave to bring an action for
ejectment, but to this day I have never been able to commence it, such shifts
and quibbles does he find to thwart me. While I think it my duty to proceed thus
with caution, legally and constitutionally, Meidias, as you learn, thought fit
to treat with brutal insolence not only me and mine, but also my
fellow-tribesmen through me.
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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