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But you must hear the most outrageous thing which these
conspirators have done （and I beg you in the name of Zeus and the gods,
let no one of you be offended if I show the rascality of these men who have
wronged me. For I hold that in showing what scoundrels they are I am speaking
with precise reference to the experience which has befallen me）. For,
you must know, men of Athens, that
when certain aliens, Anaximenes and Nicostratus, wished to become citizens,
these scoundrels admitted them for a sum of money, which they divided among
themselves, receiving five drachmae apiece. Eubulides and his clique will not
deny on oath that they have knowledge of this; and now in this last revision
they did not expel these men. Do you think, then, that there is anything that
they would not do in private, seeing that in a public matter they dared this?
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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