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The same orator was responsible for the misfortunes
which overtook them and those which will soon overtake him. He himself in the
Assembly instructed this council to judge his case, after calling on you as his
witnesses. He made an agreement with the people and proposed the decree against
himself, to be kept by the mother of the gods,1 who is the
city's guardian of all written contracts. It would thus be impious for you to
invalidate this or, after swearing by the gods in the present trial, to give a
vote which did not conform with the actions of the gods themselves.
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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