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Yet,
if your intentions had been honest, Timocrates, knowing as you did the statute
which I have read, it was your duty, first to make written request for audience
before the Council, then to confer with the Assembly, and after that, if the
whole body of citizens had approved, to compose and bring in your bill on the
matters in question, and even then to wait for the dates prescribed by law, in
order that, doing business in that fashion, even though anyone tried to show
that your law was disadvantageous to the State, you might not have been
suspected of malicious intention, but only of the misfortune of erroneous
judgement.
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