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That
Theocrines, men of the jury, if he had been offered the thousand drachmae, would
have withdrawn the indictment against my father, I think that you are all
convinced, even if no witness had so testified. To prove, however, that he has
summoned many other people and preferred indictments against them, and then has
compromised the matter, and that he is in the habit of desisting from
prosecution on receipt of small bribes, I shall call before you the very persons
who paid him, in order that you may not believe him when he declares that it is
he who keeps watch over those who propose illegal measures, and that when
indictments for illegality are done away with it is the ruin of your democracy.
（For it is in this way that all those who sell everything for money are
in the habit of talking.）
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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