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Even when a man has got his permission, the law does not
allow him to do the business as he chooses, but as the Council and the Assembly
approve. Timocrates was not satisfied with the simple transgression of making
his proposal and introducing his law on the matters in question without
permission granted; he went further and, without laying any proposition before
the Council or before the Assembly, on the sly, when the Council stood
adjourned, and everybody was holiday-making in honor of the festival, he brought
in his bill surreptitiously.—
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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