As for his lamentations, it is fitting that you give aid, not to those who try to show
 that they are the most miserable of men, but to those whose statements concerning the
 facts to which they have sworn in their affidavits are manifestly the more just. And in
 regard to the penalty assessed against the loser, if I were responsible for this action,
 you might reasonably sympathize with him as about to be penalized; but the truth is, it is
 he who brings in a calumnious accusation and therefore you cannot in justice accept
 anything he says. In the second place, you should consider this point—that all the exiles who returned to
 the city from the Peiraeus would be able to use the very same arguments as he; but no one
 except Callimachus has had the audacity to introduce such a suit. And yet you ought to
 hate such persons and regard them as bad citizens who, although they have suffered the
 same misfortunes as the part of the people, think fit to exact exceptional punishments.