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each man in private and in public life,Blass, comparing Aeschin. 3.1, conjectured the sense to be: I come before you now having put my trust both in the gods, on whom you all rely in private and in public life, and also in the law, etc. and also in the law and in the oath which bids you give an equal hearing to the prosecution and to the defence.
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to conduct the prosecution,The sense is no doubt: Since you allowed my opponents to conduct the prosecution as they wished, allow me also a fair hearing in my defence. allow me also in the same way to follow out, so far as I am able, the line of defence which I have chosen. I must ask you all, while I am speaking, to refrain from interrupting me with: Why are you telling us this? And do not add anything of your own to the prosecution’s argument; rather attend to the defence
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nor is it true that the law, while allowing freedom to join in the prosecution of men on trial, denies the right to share in their defence. I do not intend to waste words before coming to the point, and shall therefore proceed to the actual defence, after praying the gods to help me and bring me safely through the present trial and requesting you, gentlemen of the jury, first
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either the betrayal of dockyards, the burning of public buildings, or the seizure of the Acropolis
