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the first place, after the demesmen had assembled, he wasted the whole day in
making speeches and in drawing up resolutions. This was not done by accident,
but was a part of his plot against me, in order that the vote regarding me might
take place as late in the day as possible; and he accomplished this end. Those
of us members of the deme who took the oath numbered seventy-three, and we began
voting late in the evening, with the result that, when my name was called, it
was already dark;
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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