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Alternatively, if it was your wish to
forgive Demosthenes for these offences and to have in the city a large number of
people who would take bribes against you, the council ought, having tested your
wishes in the previous cases, to have refused to undertake an investigation over
the payments of money recently reported. For despite the excellence and the
justice of this recent report, which incriminates Demosthenes and the rest of
them, and despite the fact that the Areopagus has not deferred to the power of
Demosthenes or Demades but has regarded justice and truth as more important,
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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