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5.1I perceive, men of
5.4While I am well aware, Athenians, that to talk in this assembly about oneself and one's own speeches is a very profitable practice, if one has the necessary effrontery, I feel that it is so vulgar and so offensive that, though I see the necessity, I shrink from it. I believe, however, that you will form a better judgement of what I am going to propose, if I remind you of a few things that I have said on former occasions. 5.5For in the first place, Athenians, when it was proposed to take advantage of the unrest in
5.11Now all these instances, where I appear to have had a clearer foresight than the rest, I shall not refer to a single cause, men of
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