[201] How you may avert speeches of that sort, fellow citizens, I will tell you. When
Ctesiphon
comes forward here and recites to you that introduction which has of course been composed for him,
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and when he then tries to kill time, and makes no answer to the charge, suggest to him, quietly, that he take the tablet and read the laws and his resolution side by side. If he pretends that he does not hear you, then do you refuse to hear him. For you have not come here to listen to men who dodge an honest defence, but to those who are willing to defend themselves with justice.
Against Ctesiphon. Aeschines. Charles Darwin Adams (Translator). London. 1919.
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