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But now, I believe, his champions are Polyeuctus and
Timocrates and the ragamuffin Euctemon. Such are the mercenaries that he keeps
about him; and there are others besides, an organized gang of witnesses, who do
not openly force themselves upon you, but readily give a silent nod of assent to
his lies. [I do not of course imagine that they make anything out of
him, but there are some people, men of Athens, who are strangely prone to abase themselves towards the
wealthy, to attend upon them, and to give witness in their favour.]
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