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It is, therefore, just on many accounts that you should aid me who am being
wronged, and fitting that you should feel indignation against the men,
who—O Earth and the Gods—when they need not have come into
court at all had they done what is fair, are not ashamed to remind you of any
improper acts of my father, or of wrongs which they committed against him, but
even force me to go to law with them. To make you understand clearly that it is
they, not I, who are to blame for this, I will set forth to you the facts of the
case from the beginning with the utmost possible brevity.
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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