Gentlemen of the jury

First, to enable a jury to give a just and conscientious verdict;

I do not think, gentlemen of the jury, that even Timocrates can lay the blame of the present prosecution upon anyone else:

For it is the decision that you pronounce on oath on every question which is annulled and made worthless by the law proposed by the defendant;

Now if that is what you want, if their practice accords with your ideas, we must just let them go their own way;

they mount the platform in the Assembly, where you look to your orators to explain their policy, not to flaunt their wickedness;

You yourselves have the sole right of judging our case, though every Athenian was in the ballot and all, I am sure, wanted to be allotted to this court.

Wherein then resides their power?

Do not, gentlemen of the jury, do not betray me or yourselves or the laws.

Those of you who were spectators at the Dionysia hissed and hooted Meidias when he entered the theater;

Well, gentlemen of the jury, you have heard the facts in detail.

For my part, gentlemen of the jury, I beg you most earnestly to show me mercy.

So, to be quite honest with you, gentlemen of the jury, I took her at her word.