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Now if Timocrates had not been liable to prosecution on
every count, if he had not contravened every one of these directions when he
introduced his law, a single charge, whatever it might be, would have been
preferred against him; but, as the matter stands, I am compelled to take the
points one by one and address you on each in its turn. I will therefore take his
first offence first, that is, that he tried to legislate in defiance of all the
statutes. Afterwards I will deal in turn with any other topic on which you are
willing to hear me.—Please take the statutes,—here they
are,—and read them.—You will find that he has not satisfied
any one requirement. I ask your attention, gentlemen of the jury, to the
statutes as they are read.
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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