[133]
Had not the
Council of the Areopagus, becoming aware of the facts, and seeing that you had
made a most inopportune blunder, started further inquiries, arrested the man,
and brought him into court a second time, the vile traitor would have slipped
out of your hands and eluded justice, being smuggled out of the city by our
bombastic phrase-monger. As it was, you put him on the rack and then executed
him, and you ought to have done the same to Aeschines.
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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