itaque communis officii sorte truculentus accusator, privati adfectus condicione miserabilis reus, puerum ad se exorandum quo parcius patris criminibus insisteret venientem neque repellere neque supplicem genibus suis advolutum intueri sustinuit, sed operto capite flens et gemens preces expromere passus est, nihilominusque sincera fide accusatum Demostratum damnavit.
Thus by the lottery of public office a ferocious prosecutor but by circumstance of private feeling a pitiable defendant, he could not bring himself to repulse the boy when he came to beg him to bear lightly on the charges against the father nor yet to look at him as he fell in supplication at his knees, but with covered head, weeping and groaning, let him set forth his entreaties. None the less he prosecuted Demostratus in good faith and secured a conviction;
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