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But
we are at the present time involved in a misfortune so great that, whereas it is
permitted to this fellow to make slanderous statements which have nothing to do
with the case, and to avail himself of every possible means to prevent my
obtaining my rights in any particular, you will perhaps rebuke me, if I tell you
what sort of a trade this man plies as he goes about the city; and you would do
so with good reason, for what need is there for me to tell you what you know?
But consider. It seems to me certainly that our carrying on a trade in the
market-place is the strongest proof that this fellow is bringing against us
charges which are false.
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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