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But, if I came into court twice, he could
not avoid a second appearance, and therefore he would not let me be summoned.
Yet that act, men of Athens, proves
two propositions: first, that Aeschines has pronounced his own condemnation, and
therefore you cannot conscientiously acquit him today; and secondly, that he
will not have a truthful word to say about me, otherwise he would have spoken
out and denounced me then, instead of trying to block my summons.
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.
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