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[Then again we shall find that he has not the same
claim to consideration as these others. For in the first case the man who struck
the judge had three excuses: he was drunk, he was in love, and he did not know
what he was doing in the darkness and the night. Polyzelus again explained that
owing to his ungovernable temper he had lost his head when he committed the
offence; there was no hostility behind the act and no intention to insult. But
Meidias cannot plead any of these excuses, for he was my enemy, and he assaulted
me willfully by daylight, and not only on that, but on every occasion he has
shown a deliberate intention to insult me.
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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