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Would not my
lot, men of Athens, be more piteous
than that of any other, if, when all this host of witnesses deposes and swears
that they are of my kin, and when no one disputes the citizenship of any one of
these, you should vote that I am an alien?Take,
please, also the deposition of Cleinias and that of his relatives; for they, I
presume, know who my mother was who once served as his nurse. Their oath
requires them to bear witness, not to what I say today, but to what they have
always known regarding her who was reputed to be my mother and the nurse of
Cleinias.
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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