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Now
attend to another point that must not escape you. Perhaps Philippus will get up
and defend the Council; perhaps too Antigenes and the checking-clerk1 and some others, who along with the defendant
kept the Council-chamber as their private preserve, and who are the cause of the
present discontents. Now you must all observe that their pretence is that they
are supporting the cause of the Council, but really they will be fighting for
their own interests, to support the audit which they have to render of their
official acts.
1 The ἀντιγραφεὺς τῆς βου;ῆς checked all financial transactions with which the Council was concerned. He must be distinguished from the γραμματεύς , who dealt with the decrees. The two men named are unknown.
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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