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With reference to the enmity of these people you could
give me more exact information than I can give you. I should be glad, however,
to ask Theocrines in your presence, if only he would give me an honest answer,
what he would have done—he who declares that he has been assigned the
duty of putting a stop to the proposers of illegal decrees—if anyone,
after speaking to the whole body of citizens in the assembly and winning their
assent, had proposed a decree, permitting those who had lost their civic rights
and those indebted to the public treasury to indict, denounce, and lodge
criminal informations—in a word to do all the things which the law now
forbids them to do—
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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