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And yet in the
past, Demosthenes, you proposed that the council of the Areopagus should have
power over all these men, and the rest of Athens too, to enforce the laws of the land and punish any who
transgressed them. It was you who surrendered the whole city into the hands of
this council which you will presently tell us is oligarchic. By the terms of
your decree the death sentence has been inflicted on two citizens, a father and
a son, who were given over to the executioner.
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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