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However, the Basileus read them the law, and showed that there was not sufficient time to register a charge or issue the necessary writs1; so I took the originators of the plot into court, and secured a conviction in every case—and you know the amount at which the damages were fixed. No sooner, however, did my accusers here find it impossible to give the help which they had been paid to give than they approached me and my friends with a request for a reconciliation, and offered to make amends for their past errors.
1 προκλήσεις are writs summoning the witnesses for the prosecution and defence.
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