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You tried these men and acquitted them. You were not thereby
convicting the Areopagus of error but you were more concerned with sympathy than
justice, and thought the punishment too severe for the offence which the
defendants had committed. Do you imagine then, Demosthenes, that the council
made a false report? Of course it did not. Nevertheless, gentlemen, you
acquitted these men and others like them, though the council reported that they
were guilty of breaking its rules.
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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