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The facts speak for themselves.

— Demosthenes XIX. On the Embassy (-343)

τὰ πεπραγμένα αὐτὰ βοᾷ.

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Compare Cicero, Pro Milone, 53: res loquitur ipsa, iudices, quae semper valet plurimum. The facts, O judges, speak for themselves; facts, which are always of the greatest weight in a cause. (tr. C. D. Yonge, 1852)

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