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The facts were indisputable; the Council condemned
him; the Assembly spent a whole day over the case; two juries, each a
thousand-and-one strong, brought in their verdict; and then, when there was no
subterfuge left by which you could be kept out of your money, this man
Timocrates, with the most insolent contempt of the whole proceeding, proposes
this law,—a law by which he robs the gods of their consecrated
treasure and the city of her just dues, invalidates the judgements pronounced by
the Council, the Assembly, and the Courts of Justice, and has given free licence
to everybody to plunder the treasury.
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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