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Since he
refused this, and refused the challenge which he himself gave at the first, I
wonder what in the world he will have to say to you. But that you may know who
it is at whose hands he claims to have suffered these
indignities—behold him!1 This is the man who dispossessed Pantaenetus; this
is the man who was stronger than the friends of Pantaenetus, and stronger than
the laws. For I myself was not in Athens; even he does not make that charge.
1 Here the speaker effectively brings before the jury the slave, Antigenes—a feeble, old man.
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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