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I am not citing other instances of
his continual change of policy or of the pernicious speeches which he has
consistently made. At one time he made a proposal forbidding anyone to believe
in any but the accepted gods and at another said that the people must not
question the grant of divine honors to Alexander1; and again when he was on the point of being tried
before you, he impeached Callimedon for consorting with the exiles2 in Megara with intent to overthrow the democracy,
1 Demosthenes had merely said: “Let him be the son of Zeus and Poseidon too if he likes.” Cf. Hyp. 5 col. 31.
2 Athens, unlike most Greek cities, refused to obey Alexander's order for the restoration of exiles （cf. note on Din. 1.81）. Callimedon, a politician with pro-Macedonian sympathies, nicknamed the Crab, is mentioned several times by Plutarch （e.g. Plut. Dem. 27）.
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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