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Apart from mere abuse, however,
I shall reveal all that certain people say and which I believe it to your advantage to
have heard. For, after all, no one has supposed that you laboured under a misunderstanding
and deception concerning the truth so far as Lycurgus himself is concerned, for the length
of time during which, where subject to scrutiny,1 he never was
found guilty of any wrong toward you in either thought or deed and the fact that no human
being could ever have accused you of indifference to any other action of his naturally
eliminate the pretext of ignorance.
1 There was a board of thirty men at Athens who acted as accountants and auditors. Ten of the thirty were called εὔθυνοι; any official who handled public money could be charges before them with bribery or misappropriation of funds. All accounts were subject to their inspection. Cf. Aristot. Ath. Pol. 48.3-4; Aristot. Ath. Pol. 53.2.
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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