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The council of the Areopagus is bound,
gentlemen, to follow one of two methods in making all its reports. What are
these methods? Its inquiry is made either on its own initiative or in obedience
to the people's instructions.1 Apart from these two, there is no
other procedure it could follow. If then you tell us, you abominable brute, that
the council followed the people's instructions in making its inquiry and
publishing the report on me,
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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