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this man I was far more grievously wronged than Euctemon, inasmuch as Euctemon
suffered the loss of some money, but I, if he had made good his attack upon me,
should have lost my life as well as my property; indeed, even the common
privilege of an easy exit from life would have been denied me. He accused me of
a crime which a man of good feeling would be loath even to mention,—of
having killed my own father; he concocted an indictment for impiety, and brought
me to trial. At that trial he failed to get a fifth part of the votes of the
jury, and was fined a thousand drachmas. I was deservedly acquitted, for which I
thank first the gods, and secondly those of you who were on the jury;
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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