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What are we to do for the first eight ? Tell us this,
Timocrates: are we never to meet and deliberate? If so, shall we still be living
under popular government? Shall there be no sessions of the courts, civil or
criminal? If so, what security will there be for complainants? Shall the Council
not attend at their office to transact their legal business? If so, what remains
but complete disorganization? You nay reply that we shall go on without payment
of fees. Then is it not monstrous that the Assembly, the Council, and the
law-courts must go unpaid for the sake of a statute which you were paid to
introduce?
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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