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Now, of all these rules the defendant Timocrates has not
observed one. He never exhibited his law; he gave no one a chance to read it and
oppose it; nor did he wait for any of the dates appointed by statute. The
assembly at which your vote was taken fell on the eleventh of Hecatombaeon, and
he introduced his law on the twelfth, the very next day, although it was a feast
of Cronos and the Council therefore stood adjourned; for he had contrived, with
the help of persons whose intentions are unfriendly to you, to get by decree a
sitting of the Legislative Committee, on an excuse afforded by the Panathenian
Festival.
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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