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Again, with
regard to the law which forbids him to speak or move resolutions, because his
father owed money to the exchequer and has never paid it, you have a fair and
reasonable answer to him, if he says that we ought to have laid an information
against him. We will do that later, certainly not now, Androtion, when you have
to render an account of your other crimes, but when it is proper to do so
according to the law. For the present, we are content to prove that the law does
not permit you to move resolutions, not even such as every other citizen may
move.
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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