[29]
Here is the
proof: when the Legislative Committee was in session, nobody introduced any law,
good or bad, in respect of the business specified, that is, of financial
provision for the Panathenian Festival, but this man Timocrates coolly and
quietly proceeded to legislate about matters that lay outside the terms of the
decree, and were forbidden by statute. He assumed that the date specified in the
decree was more authoritative than the date prescribed by law; and, while you
were all holidaymaking, and though there is a standing law that at such a time
we shall do one another no wrong either in private or public life nor transact
business that does not concern the Festival, he was not in the least afraid of
making an exhibition of himself by doing wrong, not to this or that person, but
to the whole community.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.