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Being indicted for this measure, I
stood my trial before this court and was acquitted, the prosecutor not getting
the fifth part of the votes. Now how much money do you think the first, second,
and third classes of contributors on the Naval Boards offered me not to propose
the measure, or, failing that, to put it on the list and then drop it on
demurrer1?\b It was so large a sum, men of Athens, that I hardly like to name it.
1 ὑπωμοσία, in general an affidavit to arrest proceedings; here the oath taken in the Assembly by the party engaging to prosecute the author of a law or a decree for violation of the constitution. Its effect was to keep the law in abeyance, at whatever stage it had arrived, until the suit was decided.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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