[53]
Is it not an
anomaly, Athenians, that on that occasion, because one man, Pistias an
Areopagite,1 told lies against the council and myself and said that I
was a criminal, falsehood would have prevailed over truth, if through my
weakness and isolation at the time the trumped up lies against me had been
believed; whereas now, when the fact is admitted by the whole Areopagus that
Demosthenes has taken twenty talents of gold against your interests, and is
therefore a criminal, and that your popular leader, in whom some men place their
hopes,
1 Nothing else is known of Pistias except that Dinarchus composed a speech against him, the title of which appears in the list of his genuine public orations preserved by Dionysius.
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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