[14]
Yet if he detected me in any of
the acts which he has recounted to my prejudice, or in any other iniquity, there
are statutes dealing with those offences, punishments, legal processes, trials
involving severe penalties and heavy fines; and any of these proceedings he
might have taken. Had he so acted, had he in that way employed the methods
applicable to my case, his denunciations would have been consistent with his
conduct;
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.