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For when on the advice of Callistratus you
undertook to aid the Lacedaemonians,1 he at that
time opposed in the assembly the vote to do so, because he had purchased the
right to collect the two per cent tax on grain during the peace, and was obliged
to deposit his collections in the senate-chamber during each prytany. For this
he was entitled to exemption under the laws and did not go out on that
expedition; but he was indicted by this man Stephanus for avoidance of military
duty, and being slanderously maligned in the latter's speech before the court,
was convicted and deprived of his civic rights.
1 This was in 369, when Epameinondas and the Thebans invaded Laconia.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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