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and when he was
there, among those who had been segregated from the rest of the world as felons,
was looked upon as so debased that even there he was not thought worthy of the
same treatment as the rest? It is said, in fact, that he was caught thieving
among them and that, if there had been any other place more degraded where they
could have isolated men who stole in prison, this monster would have been
conducted there. These facts, as I said just now, were established by evidence
against Aristogiton, as is well known, when the lot fell to him to be custodian
of the exchange but he was rejected by those who then decided the appointment to
that office.1
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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