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This is the law,
Athenians, which provides for the lodging of a plaint. It directs, as you have
heard, that a meeting of the Assembly shall be held in the temple of Dionysus
after the Pandia, and that at this meeting, when the chairmen for the day have
dealt with the official acts of the chief Archon, they shall also deal with any
offences or illegal acts in connection with the festival—a sound and
expedient law, Athenians, as the facts of the present case attest. For when it
appears that certain persons, with this threat overhanging them, can be as
insolent as ever, how should we expect that such men would behave, if there were
no risk and no trial to be faced?
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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