and it is that sort of thing which free men should especially resent and for which they
 should obtain the greatest requital. I observe that you, when you find anyone guilty of
 the robbery of a temple or of theft, do not assess the fine according to the value of what
 is stolen, but that you condemn all alike to death, and that you consider it just that
 those who attempt to commit the same crimes should pay the same penalty. For the same argument cf. Lyc.
 1.65-66 . 
 You should, therefore, be of the same mind with respect to those who commit battery, and
 not consider whether they did not maul their victims thoroughly, but whether they
 transgressed the law, and you should punish them, not merely for the chance outcome of the
 attack, but for their character as a whole, reflecting that often ere now petty causes
 have been responsible for great evils, and that, because there are persons who have the effrontery to beat others, there have
 been cases where men have become so enraged that wounds, death, exile, and the greatest
 calamities have resulted. That no one of these consequences happened in my case is not due
 to the defendant; on the contrary, so far as he is concerned they have all taken place,
 and it was only by the grace of fortune and my character that no irreparable harm has been
 done. I think that you would be as indignant as the circumstances merit if you should reflect
 how much more reprehensible this misdemeanor is than any others. For you will find that
 while the other unjust acts impair life only partially, malicious assault vitiates all our
 concerns, since it has destroyed many households and rendered desolate many cities. And yet why need I waste time in speaking of the calamities of the other states? For we
 ourselves have twice seen the democracy overthrown In 411 B.C. , by the regime of the Four Hundred, and in 404 B.C. when the Spartans, after the capture of Athens,
 established the Thirty Tyrants in power. and twice we have been deprived of
 freedom, not by those who were guilty of other crimes, but by persons who contemned the
 laws and were willing to be slaves of the enemy while wantonly outraging their
 fellow-citizens.