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Furthermore, men of the jury, when you question the nine
archons, you ask whether they act dutifully toward their parents. I for my part
am left without a father, but for my mother's sake I beg and beseech you so to
settle this trial as to restore to me the right to bury her in our ancestral
tomb. Do not deny me this; do not make me a man without a country; do not cut me
off from such a host of relatives, and bring me to utter ruin. Rather than
abandon them, if it prove impossible for them to save me, I will kill myself,
that at least I may be buried by them in my country.
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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