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Like the early lawgivers, Athenians, who made laws to deal
with those addressing your ancestors in the Assembly, you too should try, by
your behavior as listeners, to make the speakers who come before you better.
What was the attitude of the lawgivers to these men? In the first place, at
every sitting of the Assembly they publicly proclaimed curses against
wrongdoers, calling down destruction on any who, after accepting bribes, made
speeches or proposals upon state affairs, and to that class Aristogiton now
belongs.
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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