I doubt if on these points there is need to say any more. I request you to condemn Theomnestus, reflecting that no trial could be more serious for me than the present. For although I am now prosecuting for slander, yet at the same casting of your vote I am prosecuted for murdering my father,—I who alone, as soon as I was certified to be of age,By the Council, when he was eighteen years old. indicted the Thirty before the Areopagus.

Remembering these reasons, vindicate me and my father, and also the established laws and the oaths that you have sworn.