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Read first the decree,.for which
I was indicted and tried, and then the schedules as compiled under the old
statute under my statute.“Decree[In the archonship of Polycles, on the
sixteenth of the month Boëdromion, the tribe Hippothontis holding
the presidency, Demosthenes, son of Demosthenes, of Paeania, introduced a
bill to amend the former law constituting the syndicates for the equipment
of triremes. The bill was passed by the Council and the People, and
Patrocles of Phlya indicted
Demosthenes for a breach of the constitution, and, not obtaining the
required proportion of votes, paid the fee of five hundred
drachmas.]”Now read that fine
schedule.“Schedule[The trierarchs to be called up, sixteen
for each trireme, from the associations of joint contributors, from the age
of twenty-five to that of forty, paying equal contributions to the public
service.]”
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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