There is
nothing, it appears, Athenians, which we must not expect either to hear or see
in connection with the reports which have been made; but the most remarkable
fact of all, in my opinion, confronts us now. The worst character in the city, I
should say in the whole world, Aristogiton, has come to pit himself in law
against the Areopagus on the subject of truth and justice; and the council which
has made the report is now in greater danger than this man who takes bribes
against you and who sold for twenty minas the right of free speech in the cause
of justice.
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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