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Gentlemen, you have very many witnesses, as I said
before, among citizens and other Greeks, watching to see how you will judge this
trial; are you, they wonder, going to bring within the scope of the courts the
venal actions of other men, or will there be complete freedom to accept bribes
against you? Will the things which so far have been held trustworthy and sure
now cease to be so on account of the trial of Demosthenes? On his past record he
ought to have been put to death, and he is liable to all the curses known to the
city,
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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