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Why, for those
performances alone, though they had committed no other fraud on the City, it
seems to me that they deserve not one but three sentences of death; for they are
guilty of sacrilege, of impiety, of embezzlement, of every monstrous crime. The
greater part, then, of the speech by which Androtion threw dust in your eyes I
will leave unnoticed; but, by alleging that the leaves of the crowns were rotten
with age and falling off,—as though they were violet-leaves or
rose-leaves, not leaves made of gold—he persuaded you to melt them
down. Being appointed to perform that operation, he chose as his assistant
Timocrates, the constant partner of his misdeeds.
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