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If I were present in person I should be trying to explain these matters to you by word of
mouth, but since I am in such a plight as I pray may be the lot of anyone who has uttered
falsehoods against me to my ruin, I have sent my message in the form of a letter, in the
first place, having supreme regard for your honor and your advantage and, in the second,
because the same goodwill that I felt toward Lycurgus during his lifetime I believe it
right to show that I feel also toward his sons.
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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