[95]
and directly after countermanded the impeachment and
brought forward at the recent sitting of the Assembly a false witness whom he
had primed to say that there was a plot afoot threatening the docks. In all this
he offered no proposals but simply furnished us with charges for the present
trial, since on all these points you are witnesses against him. This man is a
juggler, Athenians, and a blackguard, not entitled to be a citizen of Athens, either by virtue of his birth or of
his political record.
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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