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For my own part, men of the jury （and I beg you by
Zeus and the gods, let no one make an outcry or be vexed at what I am going to
say）, I hold myself to be an Athenian on the same grounds on which each
one of you holds himself to be one, having from the first regarded as my mother
her whom I represent as such to you, and not pretending to be hers while really
belonging to another; and in regard to my father the case is the same.
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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