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It will; for the council has told lies against
Demosthenes. This is the crowning argument in his case. It has told lies, has
it, against you and Demades: men against whom it is evidently not even safe to
speak the truth; though you previously instructed the Areopagus to investigate
many public matters and expressed approval of it for the inquiries which it had
held? Are the indictments which the council has made against these men false
when the whole city cannot compel them to do right? Great Heavens!
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