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Therefore if perhaps anyone
of you hitherto assumed that this action was brought from private motives, when
he now reflects that this is a matter of general concern, and that public
interest demands that no one shall be allowed to act in this way, let him grant
me an attentive hearing, and then let him give what seems to him the fairest
verdict.But first the clerk shall read you
the law which provides for the lodging of plaints in the Assembly; after that I
will try to enlighten you on other points. Recite the law.“Law[The Prytanes
shall call a meeting of the Assembly in the temple of Dionysus on the day
next after the Pandia. At this meeting they shall first deal with religious
matters; next they shall lay before it the plaints lodged concerning the
procession or the contests at the Dionysia, namely such as have not been
satisfied.]”
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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