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I wish now, men
of the jury, to explain to you the origin of my action against Theophemus, in
order that you may be assured that he not only secured my condemnation unjustly
by deceiving the jury, but also at the same time secured by the same verdict the
condemnation of the senate of five hundred, and made of no effect the decisions
of your courts and of no effect your decrees and your laws, and shook your faith
in your magistrates and in the inscriptions on the public stelae.1 How he has done this I will show you point by point.
1 These stelae were marble slabs upon which were inscribed the names of those trierarchs who were indebted to the state for damage or loss of equipment. A good many such inscriptions are still extant.
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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