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This is a story of his own invention, not based on
fact, and he is impudent enough to lie to you. So to make sure that, if he
embarks upon this story, you will pay no attention to him but will realize fully
that the council did not report me and was in no danger of doing
so,—the truth being that I suffered at the hands of a man of low
character who has been convicted before you,—let me explain briefly.
Then I will come back to Demosthenes.
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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