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One of the descendants of Harmodius was imprisoned in pursuance of your order.
These gentlemen, acting on the council's report, tortured and killed
Antiphon.1 You expelled
Charinus2 from the city for treason on the strength of
the council's reports and punishments. After proposing this treatment for
yourself also, are you now overriding the decree of your own accord? Surely that
is neither just nor lawful.
1 Demosthenes （Dem. 18.132） confirms this and says that Antiphon promised Philip that he would burn the dockyards in the Piraeus. Demosthenes caught him there and brought him before the people, who at first acquitted him. But the Areopagus intervened and he was later executed.
2 Charinus, a figure of little importance, is mentioned as a traitor in the speech against Theocrines, which was attributed by Dionysius to Dinarchus but has survived among the works of Demosthenes （Dem. 58.38）.
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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