[6]
Though this investigation has been conducted, in the
people's opinion, both fairly and profitably, accusations, challenges, and
calumnies are proceeding from Demosthenes, since he has been listed as the
holder of twenty talents of gold. Will that council then which, in cases of
willful] murder, is trustworthy enough to arrive at truth and justice and is
empowered to pass judgement in matters of life and death on each of the
citizens, to take up the cause of those who have met a violent end and banish or
execute any in the city who have broken the law,1 be powerless now to administer justice over the
money credited to Demosthenes?
1 After the restoration of the democracy in 403 B.C. the Areopagus played a more important part in public affairs than in the preceding half-century. It dealt with all cases of voluntary homicide and sometimes with political cases also, when it could act either on its own initiative （cf. Din. 1.63 and Dem. 18.133） or in response to the people's request, as in the present instance. See Din. 1.50.
Dinarchus. Minor Attic Orators in two volumes, 2, with an English translation by J. O. Burtt, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1962.
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