[47] Where indeed could one find fewer scruples or a greater contempt for law? Here are men who expect to persuade you to believe what they have failed to persuade themselves to believe, who bid you declare guilty the man whom they have themselves in fact declared innocent; whereas everyone else uses the facts to prove the worth of mere assertion, they use mere assertion for the purpose of discrediting the facts.
On the Choreutes. Antiphon. ed. Kenneth John Maidment. London. 1941.
Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.
Funding provided by The Annenberg CPB/Project.