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Observe, as the
decree is read, how ingeniously the man who drafted it, under a pretext of
finance and the urgency of the Festival, cancelled the date fixed by statute,
and put in his own date,—that they should legislate
“to-morrow.” I protest that his intention was, not that
something belonging to the Festival should be done as handsomely as possible,
for in fact there was nothing left to be done, and no financial deficiency to be
made good; but that this law of theirs, the subject of the present trial, might
be enacted and come into force without any living man having wind of it
beforehand or offering opposition.
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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