[6]
[Or ought you to spare the defendant on account of his ancestry and
his moderation, or because he has done you many public and private
services?]1 What information do you lack that makes you ask for
arguments against the defendant here before you? What if we, the accusers, all
ten of us, use up all the water in our clocks and proclaim that it is a terrible
thing to release men who have been caught with bribes against the city in their
very hands; will that make the council's report against Aristogiton true and
just?
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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