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that though he has given warning in the
Assembly of his desperate character and admits that he accepts money and will
continue to do so, still he has not dared to show his face before these men and
did not presume to dispute the council's report; moreover he did not propose
that the council should have authority over him or lay down the death penalty if
he should be proved to have taken bribes. But you have such complete confidence
in your own arguments and such a contempt for these men's simplicity that you
expect to persuade the jury that in your case only has the council's statement
been false and that you alone of those whom it reported have not accepted the
gold. Who could believe that?
Dinarchus. Minor Attic Orators in two volumes, 2, with an English translation by J. O. Burtt, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1962.
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