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Would it not be a
shameful and outrageous thing, if Cephallenians, in order to save property for
Athenians, ordered the ship to be brought here, but you, who are Athenians,
should order the property of your citizens to be given up to those who wished to
throw it into the sea, and should allow this fellow to enter an action for goods
which he schemed to prevent from being brought here at all? Do not do that, I
implore you by Zeus and the Gods. Now read, please, the special plea which I
entered.“
Plea
”Now please read the law.“
Law
”
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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