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Moerocles,1 men of the
jury, who proposed the decree against those who injure merchants, and who
persuaded, not you alone, but your allies as well, to organize a sort of police
to repress the wrongdoers, will not be ashamed presently on behalf of Theocrines
to speak in opposition to his own decree.
1 We know nothing more of Moerocles and his decree than is told in this oration.
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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