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It is worth your while, men of Athens, to consider this
also—that you punished Archias, who had been hierophant,1
when he was convicted in court of impiety and of offering sacrifice contrary to
the rites handed down by our fathers. Among the charges brought against him was,
that at the feast of the harvest2 he sacrificed on the altar in the court at Eleusis
a victim brought by the courtesan Sinop, although it was not lawful to offer
victims on that day, and the sacrifice was not his to perform, but the
priestess'.
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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