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and yet should now, without having won the people's consent
or made the matter public, himself continue to prefer indictments, when the laws
forbid him to do so? And he will say presently that he is being abominably
treated if he is not to be allowed to continue to do this, and will rehearse the
penalties provided by the laws, to which he will be liable, if convicted. Is it
not an outrage that he should flout the laws, but claim that there has been
granted to him by you a privilege so great that no one else has dared even to
ask for it?
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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