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If, then, men of Athens, my opponents seem to have a very
strong argument in the fact that in the present instance the demesmen have
rejected me, I point out to you that on four previous occasions, when they gave
their votes in accordance with their oaths without entering into a conspiracy,
they voted that both I and my father were their fellow-demesmen—first,
when my father passed the scrutiny; secondly, when I did so; then, in the former
revision, after these men had made away with the register; and, finally, when
they nominated me among the noblest-born and voted that I should draw lots for
the priesthood of Heracles. All these facts have been established by testimony.
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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