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His subsequent conduct, which I am now
going to describe, passes all limits; and indeed I should never have ventured to
arraign him today, had I not previously secured his immediate conviction in the
Assembly. The sacred apparel—for all apparel provided for use at a
festival I regard as being sacred until after it has been used—and the
golden crowns,which I ordered for the decoration of the chorus, he plotted to
destroy,men of Athens, by a
nocturnal raid on the premises of my goldsmith. And he did destroy them, though
not completely, for that was beyond his power. And no one can say that he ever
yet heard of anyone daring or perpetrating such an outrage in this city.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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