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Again, with
regard to the law1 of prostitution, he tries to
make out that we are insulting him and attacking him with baseless calumnies. He
says too that if we believed the charges true, we ought to have faced him in the
Court of the Thesmothetae, and asked a fine of a thousand drachmas if our
charges had been proved false; as it is, we are trying to hoodwink you by
accusations and idle abuse, and are confusing you by matters outside your
jurisdiction.
1 The little that is known of this law is derived from Aeschines' speech against TimarchusAeschin. 1
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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