Excerpt from The Oration of Demosthenes on the Crown: Translated J urors, many of whom came to trials as avowed partisans; their prejudices and passions were ap pealed to with a licence far exceeding that (if modern advocacy; yet there is reason to believe that in most trials a large number of the J urors honestly desired to decide impartially, and that most of the verdicts were right. That causes were not always prejudged, and that the voting could not be calculated upon beforehand with any approach to certainty would appear from the result of this trial, where zeschines, doubtless expecting a majority of the votes, failed to obtain a fifth of them, the bulk of the J urors being influenced, and justly, by the speech of Demosthenes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.