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It would, then, be an outrageous thing, if this man,
after having become a citizen of your city through an arbitrator's decision, and
having secured a share of my inheritance, and obtained all that was fair, should
be thought by you to have any justice in his claim, when he demanded the
reopening of the suits in which I won my acquittal, when he was present and
argued against it, and acquiesced in the verdict; just as though, when it is to
his interest, awards ought to be valid, but, when it is not to his interest, his
opinion should have more weight than decisions rendered in accordance with your
laws.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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